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    The impact of life events on job satisfaction

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    Authors
    Georgellis, Yannis
    Lange, Thomas
    Tabvuma, Vurain
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Georgellis, Yannis and Lange, Thomas and Tabvuma, Vurain. 2012. The impact of life events on job satisfaction. Journal of Vocational Behaviour 80 (2): pp. 464-473.
    Source Title
    Journal of Vocational Behaviour
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jvb.2011.12.005
    ISSN
    0001-8791
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14715
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Employing fixed effects regression techniques on longitudinal data,we investigate howlife eventsaffect employees' job satisfaction. Unlike previous work–life research, exploring mostly contemporaneouscorrelations, we look for evidence of adaptation in the years following major lifeevents. We find evidence of adaptation following the first marriage event, but we find that thebirth of the first child has a long-lasting impact on employees' job satisfaction. Our findings alsosuggest that there is a general boost in job satisfaction prior to first marriage and to a lesser extentprior to the birth of the first child, consistentwith evidence of anticipation. Accordingly, our studyprovides some of the first evidence on the dynamic effect of non-work related factors on jobsatisfaction and it introduces a novel methodology and a new perspective for investigating thedynamic interaction between the work and life domains.

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