TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Heywood, John S.
AU  - Siebert, W. Stanley
AU  - Wei, Xiangdong
        TI  - Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China
        PY  - 2009/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4254
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4254
        AB  - 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."
        KW  - job satisfaction
KW  - internal migrants
KW  - party membership
KW  - China
        ER  -