Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Autor/inn/en	Krueger, Alan B.; Schkade, David
Titel	Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 43 (2008) 4, S.859-883 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Job Satisfaction; Labor Market; Foreign Countries; Career Choice; Vocational Interests; Personality Traits; Work Environment; Employee Attitudes; Interaction; Time Management; Employed Women; Interviews; Test Reliability; Industrial Psychology; Models; Social Environment; Measurement Techniques; Evaluation Methods; Data Analysis; France; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Ausland; Berufsinteresse; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Arbeitsmilieu; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Interaktion; Zeitmanagement; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Testreliabilität; Betriebspsychologie; Industriepsychologie; Analogiemodell; Soziales Umfeld; Messtechnik; Auswertung; Frankreich; USA
Abstract	This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France suggesting that workers who are more gregarious, as revealed by their behavior when they are not working, tend to be employed in jobs that involve more social interactions. We also find that workers report substantially higher levels of job satisfaction and net affect while at work if their jobs entail frequent interactions with coworkers and other desirable working conditions. (Contains 7 tables, 1 figure and 20 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10