Clark, A. E. (2001). What really matters in a job? Hedonic measurement using quit data. Labour economics, 8(2), 223-242.
This paper uses labour market spell data from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to model separations and quits. Three main results emerge. First, job satisfaction data are powerful predictors of both separations and quits, even controlling for wages, hours and standard demographic and job variables. Second, the comparison of the power of seven domain job satisfaction measures in a ...