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Gardner, Jonathan (2001) An analysis of the determinants of pay and well-being using employer-employee data. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This
thesis studies the
determinants of pay and well-being.
The first
three chapters
use new
British
employer-employee data to study the
determinants of pay.
Chapters
three and
four
are also
interested in
the
determinants
of
job
satisfaction, whilst
chapters five
and six analyse factors
that shape reported well-being.
Chapter
two tests whether
firms
share product market rents with their
employees. After
controlling
for
worker and firm fixed
effects, we observe evidence
in
support of rent-sharing upon weekly earnings, but
no robust positive effect upon
hourly
pay.
The
third chapter analyses the observed positive relationship
between
employer size and wages. It designs a test as to whether this relationship reflects a
compensating differential. This is
not
found
to offer a good explanation as to why
wages are greater
in large
establishments. Instead,
correlates of worker skill and
person
fixed
effects are most successful
in
explaining the plant size-wage
differential.
There has been
very
little
research on racial
differences in job
satisfaction
levels. Chapter 4
examines the relationship
between
race, pay and well-being.
Workplaces
that employ more ethnic minority employees are associated with
lower
levels
of
job
satisfaction,
for both
white and non-white workers.
Non-white
employees are paid
less
than otherwise similar white employees, and are
less
satisfied with their pay even when pay is held
constant.
One
of the most
fundamental ideas in
economics
is
that money makes
people
happy. Chapter 5
constructs a test.
In
the spirit of a natural experiment,
it
shows
individuals
who receive windfalls
have higher
mental well-being
in
the
following
year. It
calculates the size of the effect.
The final
chapter studies the well-being of
British
public sector workers
in
the 1990s. Relative
to private sector employees, stress levels
and
job
satisfaction
within the public sector are shown to
have
significantly worsened over the
decade.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wages -- Great Britain -- Research, Income -- Great Britain -- Research, Employment (Economic theory), Well-being -- Great Britain, Quality of life -- Great Britain | ||||
Official Date: | September 2001 | ||||
Dates: |
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Economics | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Oswald, Andrew J. | ||||
Sponsors: | University of Warwick ; Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||
Extent: | x, 274 leaves : illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
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