Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace

Karen Mumford () and Peter Smith

No 6673, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not.

Keywords: gender; earnings; job satisfaction; segregation; workplace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 J3 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2012-06
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Published - published in: Manchester School, 2015, 83 (3), 307 -313

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