A Study of Individual and Job Characteristics Related to Availability of Employee Benefits

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 企業管理系碩士班 === 92 === The purpose of this study is to examine individual and job characteristics related to availability of employee benefits. By constructing linear and logistic regression models, this research analyzed 1563 respondents from 2000 cohort of The National Longitudinal...

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Main Authors: I-Chun Lin, 林怡均
Other Authors: none
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zap72q
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Summary:碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 企業管理系碩士班 === 92 === The purpose of this study is to examine individual and job characteristics related to availability of employee benefits. By constructing linear and logistic regression models, this research analyzed 1563 respondents from 2000 cohort of The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, collected by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The findings are summarized as follows: 1.Employees with the following characteristics were less likely to have employee benefits: unmarried, job tenure less than one year, hourly wages lower than $8. Compared with sales person, managerial workers were more likely to have employee benefits. 2.Union members, full-time workers, and workers who were employed in manufacture, and public administration industries were more likely to have health, life, dental insurances, and retirement plan than those in agriculture industry. Employees with the following characteristics were less likely to have health, life, dental insurances, and retirement plan: Job tenure less than one year, hourly wages lower than $8, firm size smaller than 50 workers. 3.Employees with the following characteristics were less likely to have maternity or paternity leaves, paid sick days, and vocation days: part-time workers, hourly wages lower than $8, firm size smaller than 50. 4.Workers employed in firms smaller than 50, and hourly wages lower than $8 were less likely to have profit sharing, and training. Compared with sales and non-profit organizations, operative workers and employees who were worked in governments were less likely to have childcare, and flexible hours as employee benefits.