Values, Beliefs and Important Aspects of a Job:Job Satisfaction in Central & Eastern European Transition Countries
The transition from a plan to a market economy in Central and Eastern Europe triggered a plethora of studies concerned with the impact on gender in post-communist labour markets. A great deal of this discussion was motivated by gender inequality concerns and patterns of occupational gender segregation. In contrast, nonpecuniary aspects of employment, such as the determinants of well being for male and female workers during the period of socio-economic transition received comparatively little attention in the empirical literature. This paper studies the impact of individual values, beliefs and self-reported important aspects of a job on workers job satisfaction across five Central and Eastern European labour markets. The empirical part of the study is based on survey data derived from sub-samples of the third wave of the European Values Study (EVS) and collected during 1999-2000. Following ordered probit modelling, substantial differences are uncovered between male and female employees, some of which appear characteristic of a Soviet-style gender order and the latters persistent influence on post-communist attitudes. However, post-communist experiences have already established themselves as strong predictors of workers job satisfaction. As such, any assertion designed to attribute the determinants of job satisfaction primarily to a legacy of a communist gender order cannot be substantiated.
Socio-economic Transition Gender Relations Inequality Job Satisfaction
Thomas LANGE
AUT School of Business,Auckland University of Technology,New Zealand
国际会议
南京
英文
57-69
2008-06-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）