ABSTRACT
According to the official job descriptions and comments of personnel administrators, the major occupational differences in work conditions exist between eligibility counselors and the other three occupations. Social counselors, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and disability claims examiners are less dissimilar. Eligibility counselors have the least amount of flexibility in performing their jobs. Disability claims examiners and vocational rehabilitation counselors perceive a greater case load size than eligibility and social counselors. Regression coefficients for the occupation dummy variable effect on perceptions of exchange resources. Regression equations were estimated for every configuration of the occupation dummy variables. The odds of quitting for eligibility counselors increase with age and the ease with which these employees could find another job. The turnover models show that these effects are consistent with the neoclassical economic model of quitting, which argues that individuals work for economic gain, and they will change jobs to maximize economic profit.
