Recent Canadian Evidence on Job Quality by Firm Size
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Job quality, firm size and informality
What is meant by ‘satisfaction’ The WERS questions contained some measures that asked about satisfaction, for example with pay. But other measures asked for ratings of the quality of managers while yet others asked about the level of job autonomy. Other work by Edwards and Sen Gupta, with Chin-Ju Tsai, on the nature of jobs in small firms has deployed the term ‘self-reported job quality’ (SRJQ)...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.139788