Workplace job satisfaction in Britain: evidence from linked employer-employee data

Haile, Getinet A.

Abstract

The paper examines the nature of workplace job satisfaction in Britain using an 'overall' and domain-specific job satisfaction outcomes from linked employer-employee data. A measure of aggregate job satisfaction alone might mask domain-specific differences in satisfaction; something the combined approach in this paper addresses. As well as controlling for a rich set of correlates on employees and their workplaces, the paper deploys alternative empirical models that account for employee-and workplace-level unobserved heterogeneity. The paper reports interesting results on the link between job satisfaction and observed as well as unobserved characteristics of employees and their workplaces.

Citation

Haile, G. A. (2015). Workplace job satisfaction in Britain: evidence from linked employer-employee data. LABOUR, 29(3), 225-242

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 23, 2015
• Online Publication Date: May 6, 2015
• Publication Date: Sep 30, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jan 22, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 20, 2019
• Print ISSN: 1121-7081
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 225-242
• Keywords: Workplace Job satisfaction, linked employer-employee data, Cross-Sectional Models, Britain JEL classification: C21; J28; I31
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1487651