Job autonomy and job satisfaction: new evidence
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This paper investigates the impact of perceived job autonomy on job satisfaction. We use the fifth sweep of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988-2000), which contains personally reported job satisfaction data for a sample of individuals eight years after the end of compulsory education. After controlling for a wide range of personal and jobrelated variables, perceived job autonomy is found to be a highly significant determinant of five separate domains of job satisfaction (pay, fringe benefits, promotion prospects, job security and importance / challenge of work). Job, autonomy, satisfaction, pay, gender, promotion JEL classification: I31, J28 * Anh Nguyen would like to thank the ESRC for financial support under its Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme. Communications to be addressed to Professor Jim Taylor, Management School, Department of Economics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YX, England.
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