Análisis empírico de los determinantes de la satisfacción laboral en España

Resumen

The aim of tisis paper is to analyze empirically the determinants of job satisfaction among Spanish employees. For that purpose we use a bottom-up psychological model, in which satisfaction is considered as a result of the balance between work-role outputs Cpleasures or positive aspects9 and work-role inputs Cpains or negative aspects) related to the job. By the estimation of ordered probit models and using data from the Living Standards Quality in the Job corresponding to years 2001 to 2004, we treat to evaluate the relative importance of these work-role outputs and inputs in the determination of the job satisfaction of the Spanish employees. The results show that work compensation is one of the most important work-role outputs while the stress is the most important work-role input. On the other hand there exist gender differences as, for example, that women give more value to having and interesting job and to the existence of some good interpersonal relations in the firm.