@TechReport{dp-334,
  author        = {Cornelißen, Thomas},
  astring       = {Thomas Cornelißen},
  title         = {Job characteristics as determinants of job satisfaction
                  and labour mobility},
  month         = {April},
  year          = {2006},
  pages         = {25},
  size          = {320},
  number        = {334},
  language      = {en},
  keywords      = {job satisfaction, job mobility, quits, job search, fixed
                  effects},
  jelclass      = {J28, J62, C23},
  abstract      = {This paper investigates the effects of detailed job
                  characteristics on job satisfaction, job search and quits
                  using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) in
                  a fixed effects framework. Using a factor analysis,
                  seventeen job characteristics are reduced to seven factors
                  that describe different aspects of a job, which are
                  qualified as status, physical strain, autonomy, advancement
                  opportunities, social relations at the work place, work
                  time and job security. The effects of these factors on job
                  satisfaction, job search and quits differ. For example, job
                  insecurity reduces job satisfaction, increases the
                  subjective probability of job search but it decreases
                  quits. In circumstances of higher job insecurity it seems
                  to be hard to find a job to quit into. Regressing job
                  satisfaction, job search and quits on the detailed job
                  characteristics shows that, when judging from the number of
                  statistically significant coefficients, the job
                  characteristics explain satisfaction best, while it is
                  harder to explain job search and quits by these
                  characteristics. Job satisfaction, however, is confirmed as
                  a strong predictor of job search and quits after controling
                  for both, individual fixed effects and a set of detailed
                  job characteristics.}
}