La soddisfazione dei lavoratori italiani: evidenze empiriche recenti dai dati Banca d'Italia

CAPITOLO 1 INTRODUZIONE 1.1 Premesse A majority of economists are still reluctant to study job satisfaction. they view personal judgments of satisfaction and other subjective opinions as a black box that should be opened only by psychologists and sociologists1 . But, many studies have tried to understand the determinations of job satisfaction following the seminal papers of Hamermesh, Freeman and Borjas, and have consider job satisfaction as an economic variable. [ ]. Indeed, the satisfaction that workers derive from their job may be viewed as an indication to how thy react to general economic conditions. It is a useful summary measure of numerous job characteristics [ ] and (a way to, ndr) understanding behavior (of workers, ndr) 2. La soddisfazione del lavoro è, in ambito economico, un argomento di studio abbastanza recente dato che, per lungo tempo, è stato considerato come un 1 LŁvy-Garboua L. and Montmarquette C., (1997), Reported Job Satisfaction: What Does Il Mean? , Working Paper. 2 MorguØrou P., (2002), Job satisfaction among US Ph.D. graduates: the effects of gender and employment sector, Working Paper.