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Job Characteristics and Hours of Work [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
This paper provides evidence that hours of work are heavily influenced by the particular job which a person holds. The empirical work consists of a comparison of the variance in the change in work hours across time intervals containing a job change with the variance in the change in hours across time periods when the job remains the same. To the extent
Joseph G. Altonji, Christina Paxson
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The Measurement of Job Characteristics.

Academy of Management Journal, 1976
Perceptual methods of measuring six job characteristic dimensions were developed and validated. A perceptual instrument, called the Job Characteristic Inventory (JCI), demonstrated construct validi...
H P, Sims, A D, Szilagyi, R T, Keller
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Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and the Receipt of On-the-Job Training

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991
The authors examine the relationship between the receipt of employer-provided training and the characteristics of workers and jobs using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. They find that the intensity of training and the duration of training were negatively related; the
Joseph G. Altonji, James R. Spletzer
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Search and Nonwage Job Characteristics [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Human Resources, 2011
This paper quantifies the importance of nonwage job characteristics to workers by estimating a structural on-the-job search model. The model generalizes the standard search framework by allowing workers to search for jobs based on both wages and job-specific nonwage utility flows.
Paul Sullivan, Ted To
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The Distribution of Job Characteristics

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1974
THIS paper presents a cross-sectional analysis of the distribution across population classes of "types of work" performed in the United States. The novelty of the study resides in its measurement of types of work. The approach adopted is to focus on a matrix of coefficients describing the nature of the task involved in each occupation of a very fine ...
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The Job Characteristic Inventory: An Examination.

Academy of Management Journal, 1978
Psychometric properties of the Sims, Szilagyi, and Keller (1976) Job Characteristic Inventory (JCI) were evaluated. In particular, internal consistency reliability of JCI subscales, convergent and discriminant validity as assessed by use of a multitrait-multirater (superior and subordinate) matrix, relationships of subscale scores to measures of social
A P, Brief, R J, Aldag
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Automation, job characteristics and job insecurity

International Journal of Manpower, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether specific jobs characteristics, which experts have identified as being more automation proof, are associated with reduced job insecurity. Design/methodology/approach Data come from a recent survey providing information on sources of job insecurity as well as on detailed job characteristics.
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