The Magic of the New: How Job Changes Affect Job Satisfaction

Adrian Chadi and Clemens Hetschko

No 201405, IAAEU Discussion Papers from Institute of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU)

Abstract: We investigate a crucial event for job satisfaction: changing the workplace. For representative German panel data, we show that the reason why the previous employment ended is strongly linked to the satisfaction with the new job. When workers initiate a change of employer, they experience relatively high job satisfaction, though only in the short-term. To test causality, we exploit plant closure as exogenous trigger of job switching and find no causal effect of job changes on job satisfaction. Our findings concern research on workers' well-being as well as labor market and human resource policies.

Keywords: job satisfaction; job changes; new job; honeymoon-hangover effect; plant closure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J28 J63 M50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05
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Journal Article: The magic of the new: How job changes affect job satisfaction (2018)
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