Why are Chinese workers so unhappy? A comparative cross-national analysis of job satisfaction, job expectations, and job attributes

• Xing Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Zhang, Micha Kaiser, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yang Ling, Shaanxi, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3417-9996

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• Micha Kaiser ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Zhang, Micha Kaiser, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Institute for Health Care & Public Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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• Peng Nie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Zhang, Micha Kaiser, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Alfonso Sousa-Poza

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Zhang, Micha Kaiser, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alfonso.sousa-poza@uni-hohenheim.de

  Affiliations Institute for Health Care & Public Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, Germany

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