Age, Cohort, and the Slump in Job Satisfaction among West German Workers

Hendrik Jürges
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LABOUR, 2003, vol. 17, issue 4, 489-518

Abstract: Abstract. Using German panel data, I examine the long‐term development in satisfaction with work from 1984 until 2001. As was the case for many other industrialized countries, Germany witnessed a sharp decline in workers’ self‐reported job satisfaction in the late 1980s and 1990s, the reason of which is yet unknown. I present a cohort analysis of job satisfaction using various identifying assumptions to examine several explanations for this phenomenon: pure cohort effects, a decrease in self‐reported job security, an increase in stress at work and a deterioration in other job conditions, and possible survey artefacts such as interviewer or repeated measurement effects. However, none of these can explain the overall decline in job satisfaction.

Date: 2003
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