The magic of the new

Abstract

"We investigate a crucial event for job satisfaction: changing one's workplace. For representative German panel data, we show that the reason why the previous employment ended is strongly linked to satisfaction with the new job. Workers initiating a change of employer experience extraordinarily high job satisfaction, though in the short term only. To investigate causality, we exploit the event of plant closure as an exogenous trigger of job switching. In this case, we ?nd no signi?cantly positive e?ect of job changes on job satisfaction. Our ?ndings complement research on workers' well-being and concern labor market policies and human resource management." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Chadi, A. & Hetschko, C. (2018): The magic of the new. How job changes affect job satisfaction. In: Journal of economics & management strategy, Vol. 27, No. 1, p. 23-39. DOI:10.1111/jems.12217