Hidden religious aspects of job satisfaction and work attitudes: The differences between Eastern and Western Europe

Kamila Fialova and Andrea Beláòová
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Andrea Beláòová: Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, 11000 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Acta Oeconomica, 2020, vol. 70, issue 4, 593-613

Abstract: This paper examines the links between religion and job satisfaction. Its concern is to compare Eastern and Western Europe. We use the 2015 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) data covering both nonreligious individuals and individuals affiliated to a religious denomination. While the Western European countries generally report significantly higher levels of job satisfaction compared to their Eastern counterparts, we test the hypothesis that religion also shows differentiated effects on job satisfaction and work attitudes. Our results indicate that religion has no significant effect on job satisfaction in either of the regions. In the West, religious affiliation has an influence on a larger variety of work attitude measurements compared to those in the East. In both regions, workers who regularly attend religious services would enjoy work significantly more even if they did not need money, consider high income as less important, and consider helping other people, contact with other people, and having a job useful to society as more important.

Keywords: job satisfaction; religion; work attitudes; Eastern and Western Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 M14 O52 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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