Health-impaired employees' job satisfaction: New evidence from Athens, Greece

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 789-793

  Drydakis, Nick ^a,b,c  

^a Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c Scientific Centre for the Study of Discrimination   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exogeneity test; Job satisfaction; Ordered probit model; Switching regression model

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 80052528594     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.605346     Document Type: Article

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