@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4254, author={Heywood, John S. and Siebert, W. Stanley and Wei, Xiangdong}, title={Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China}, year={2009}, month={Jun}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={4254}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4254}, abstract={The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China. Legally segregated migrants, floaters, earn significantly less than otherwise equivalent non-migrants but routinely report greater job satisfaction, a finding not previously reported. We confirm a positive role for membership in the communist party but find that it exists only for non-migrants suggesting a club good aspect to membership. In contrast to earlier studies, many controls mirror those found in western democracies including the "paradox of the contented female worker."}, keywords={job satisfaction;internal migrants;party membership;China}, }