The seminar will be commented by Nina Mareen Junker (Department of Psychology, UiO) and Eric Iversen (NIFU), and moderated by Fulvio Castellacci (TIK).
Abstract
Recent trends, such as the "Great Resignation" (i.e., mass job quitting) and" Quiet Quitting" (i.e., putting minimum required effort at work), triggered heated social debates and media attention. But what worker motivations underpin these trends? This project focuses on differences in people's main motivation for working as a possible explanation. Some people view work as a job that brings a paycheck, others see it as a career and a way to get ahead in life, and still others as a calling or a life purpose. This project studies how these differences determine people's decisions related to job quitting and effort. We also explore how these relate to work meaningfulness and what are the optimal ways of measuring work meaningfulness, and work orientations in national surveys. Understanding the predictive validity of these measures is crucial to the development and inclusion of broad well-being measures for policy and practice. The paper provides insights from a novel survey conducted in the context of the Dutch LISS panel.
About Milena Nikolova
Milena Nikolova is an Aletta Jacobs Professor in the Economics of Well-being and a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen. She also serves as an Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. Read more about her here.
How to participate
The seminar is open to everyone, but we kindly ask you to register by sending an email to Lara Kristiansen by 22.04.2024.