Globalization and job satisfaction

This study empirically investigates the relation between globalization and job satisfaction in the European Union. The main conclusion of this research is that globalization is negatively related to job satisfaction. Another conclusion is that the relation between globalization and job satisfaction does not significantly differ between the self-employed and employees. Instead, when making a distinction between low and high educated workers, it seems that globalization is negatively related to job satisfaction for high educated workers, while there is no significantly negative relation for low educated workers. This study also investigated whether the negative relation between globalization and job satisfaction is caused by a decrease in job security. However, it appears that globalization is positively related to satisfaction with job security.