The moderating effects of demographic factors and hukou status on the job satisfaction-subjective well-being relationship in urban China

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1333-1350

  Nielsen, Ingrid ^a   Smyth, Russell ^a   Liu, Yin ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Job satisfaction; Migration; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953736458     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.559103     Document Type: Article

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