Job satisfaction in developing countries

Ahn Nguyen, Ngoc-Minh Thi Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Tuong Anh and Phuong Mai Thi Nguyen
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Ahn Nguyen: DEPOCEN - Development and Policies Research Center
Ngoc-Minh Thi Nguyen: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes
Nguyen Thi Tuong Anh: FTU - Foreign Trade University, Hanoi, Vietnam

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Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this literature on developing countries by investigating the determinants of job satisfaction in Vietnam where the economics literature on this issue is virtually non-existent. The authors also contribute to the literature on income comparison by extending beyond the within-firm co-worker income comparison. Design/methodology/approach The authors estimate a generalized order logit model for job satisfaction as statistical tests suggest that the parallel-lines assumption, which is often invoked in previous studies using the standard logit model, does not hold. Findings For Vietnam, the authors find that absolute and relative incomes as well as human resource practices such as efficiency wage and training policy have an impact on workers' satisfaction. Workers in the foreign direct investment (FDI) sectors behave a bit differently from their peers in the domestic sector. Originality/value Taking advantage of a unique matched employer–employee data set collected in 2008 by the North-South Institute (Canada) and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the authors are able to investigate the impact of a number of important job characteristics on job satisfaction such as absolute and reference incomes, wage policy, training plan for workers, union membership and job position, and, at the same time, to disentangle the possible differences in job satisfaction of workers in domestic vs FDI firms.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; Vietnam labour economics; Generalized order logit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-07
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Published in Journal of Economic Studies, 2019, 46 (1), pp.192-210. ⟨10.1108/jes-04-2017-0096⟩

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DOI: 10.1108/jes-04-2017-0096

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