TY - RPRT AU - Grund, Christian AU - Sliwka, Dirk TI - The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction - Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications PY - 2001/Nov/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 387 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp387 AB - The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and theoretical implications are analysed. It is shown that the myopic maximisation of such a function directly implies increasing and concave shaped age-earnings profiles. KW - age-earnings profiles KW - Job satisfaction KW - wage increases KW - habit formation ER -