Low Pay, Higher Pay and Job Satisfaction in Wales

Richard John Jones and Peter James Sloane

Spatial Economic Analysis, 2007, vol. 2, issue 2, pages 197-214

Abstract: Using the first six waves of the Welsh boosts to the British Household Panel Survey this paper attempts to explain the determinants of overall job satisfaction and four facets of job satisfaction in Wales, distinguishing between female and male workers and low-paid and higher paid workers. The motivation of the paper is the claim made widely in the EU that low-paid jobs are jobs of inherently low quality, in which case we should expect that job satisfaction would be lower in low-paid jobs. Since there are proportionately more low-paid workers in Wales than in either England or Scotland we would also expect to find that job satisfaction would be lower in Wales than in the other two countries.

Keywords: Pay; job satisfaction; Wales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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