Work Values in Western and Eastern Europe

Benno Torgler

CREMA Working Paper Series from Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

Abstract: The paper reports on work values in Europe. At the country level we find that job satisfaction is related to lower working hours, higher well-being, and a higher GDP per capita. Moving to the micro level, we turn our attention from job satisfaction to analyse empirically work centrality and work value dimensions (without exploring empirically job satisfaction) related to intrinsic and extrinsic values, power and social elements. The results indicate substantial differences between Eastern and Western Europe. Socio-demographic factors, education, income, religiosity and religious denomination are significant influences. We find additional differences between Eastern and Western Europe regarding work-leisure and work-family centrality that could be driven by institutional conditions. Furthermore, hierarchical cluster analyses report further levels of dissimilarity among European countries.

Keywords: work values; job satisfaction; work-leisure relationship; work-family centrality; Eastern Europe; Western Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J17 J22 J28 P20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-lma, nep-ltv, nep-soc and nep-tra
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