Job satisfaction and wages of family employees

  1. Joern H. Block
  2. José María Millán Tapia
  3. María Concepción Román Diaz
  4. Haibo Zhou
Aldizkaria:
Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice

ISSN: 1540-6520

Argitalpen urtea: 2015

Alea: 39

Zenbakia: 2

Orrialdeak: 183-207

Mota: Artikulua

Beste argitalpen batzuk: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice

Laburpena

Although they represent a sizable occupational group, little is known about family employees. Using utility theory and the theory of compensating wage differentials, we hypothesize that family employees have higher levels of job satisfaction and lower wages relative to regular employees. We present several regressions based on a large cross-country panel data set that support our hypotheses, and we discuss our study's implications for research on family businesses and the labor market.