%0 Report
        %A Heywood, John S.
%A Siebert, W. Stanley
%A Wei, Xiangdong
        %T Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China
        %D 2009
        %8 2009 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4254
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4254
        %X 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."
        %K job satisfaction
%K internal migrants
%K party membership
%K China