TY - RPRT AU - Mumford, Karen A. AU - Smith, Peter N. TI - Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace PY - 2012/Jun/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 6673 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6673 AB - We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not. KW - gender KW - earnings KW - job satisfaction KW - segregation KW - workplace ER -