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Workplace Job Satisfaction in B ritain: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data
Author(s) -
Haile Getinet A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12054
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , job attitude , job design , employee engagement , set (abstract data type) , business , job performance , psychology , demographic economics , marketing , social psychology , economics , management , computer science , programming language
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.