caa a22 4500 463217950 CHVBK 20180405153203.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10902-006-9027-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10902-006-9027-0 Reliability of job satisfaction measures [Elektronische Daten] [Nicolai Kristensen, Niels Westergaard-Nielsen] In this paper, we evaluate consistency in answers to subjective questions about job satisfaction and explore the implications of any inconsistencies. We do this by analyzing a cross-country data set for 6 EU countries where respondents were posed the same question about overall job satisfaction twice within the same questionnaire. We find that, on a 0-10 point ordered utility scale, 80% either classify themselves identically or in the immediate adjacent and that the differences in classification are symmetric around zero. Furthermore, we find that highly satisfied workers report most consistently. When job satisfaction is used as an explanatory variable, we show how OLS-parameter estimates provide a lower bound and IV-estimates an upper bound of the true estimate - and that the bounds are fairly tight. When job satisfaction is used as dependent variable, we generally find high consistency when parameters are highly significant in both models, while less significant or insignificant parameter estimates may change considerably. This indicates that higher significance standards may be advisable in analyses with satisfaction measures as dependent variable compared to more traditional models that are not based on subjective data. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 classification error nationallicence job satisfaction nationallicence measurement error nationallicence subjective data nationallicence Kristensen Nicolai CCP and Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Prismet, Silkeborgvej 2, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark aut Westergaard-Nielsen Niels CCP, IZA and Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus C, Denmark aut Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2007-06-01), 273-292 1389-4978 8:2<273 2007 8 10902 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9027-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9027-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kristensen Nicolai CCP and Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Prismet, Silkeborgvej 2, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Westergaard-Nielsen Niels CCP, IZA and Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus C, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2007-06-01), 273-292 1389-4978 8:2<273 2007 8 10902 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer