The authors’ affiliations are, respectively, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki; and Helsinki School of Economics and HECER. E-mails: petri.bockerman@labour.fi; pekka.ilmakunnas@hse.fi. The authors would like to thank three anonymous referees and Trond Petersen (the editor) for valuable comments that have greatly improved the paper. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the EALE Conference, Prague, and at the Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, Warwick. The data can be accessed on site at the Research Laboratory of the Business Structures Unit of Statistics Finland. We are grateful to Satu Nurmi and Juha Honkkila for linking the data sets for our use. This study has been funded by the Finnish Work Environment Fund (Työsuojelurahasto). The paper is also part of the Academy of Finland research program on the future of work and well-being. The usual disclaimer applies.
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Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together
Article first published online: 9 DEC 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00546.x
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Volume 48, Issue 1, pages 73–96, January 2009
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BÖCKERMAN, P. and ILMAKUNNAS, P. (2009), Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 48: 73–96. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00546.x
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We analyze the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of employees’ quit behavior. Our data contain both detailed information on perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and quit intentions from a cross-section survey, and information on employees’ actual job switches from longitudinal register data that can be linked to the survey. We show that job dissatisfaction that arises in adverse working conditions is related to job search and this in turn is related to actual job switches.