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Are you unhappy having minority co-workers?

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2013

This paper attempts to establish empirically whether natives' job satisfaction is adversely affected by having minority co-worker(s). The paper uses nationally representative linked employer-employee data and eight different facets of job satisfaction. Measuring minority co-worker status at the...

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The poor and the poorest, fifty years on

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; Searle, … - 2014

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large …

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Spillover effects of unionisation on non-members' well-being

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2014

The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...

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Workplace disability : whose wellbeing does it affect?

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2016

The paper examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and job satisfaction (JS) in Britain using linked data …

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Job satisfaction, structure of working environment and firm size

Tansel, Aysıt - 2022

Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...

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Men, women and unions

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2016

The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in minimising risk, membership should have been boosted. The paper reviews different strands of the...

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The effects of firm size on job quality : a comparative study for Britain and France

Bryson, Alex; Erhel, Christine; Salibekyan, Zinaida - 2017

-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France – countries with very different employment regimes. The … results show that job quality is better in Britain than it is in France, despite its minimalist regulatory regime. The …. Internal Labour Markets (ILMs) are associated with higher job quality in France, but not in Britain. …

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Nutrition in interwar Britain : a possible resolution of the healthy or hungry 1930s debate?

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2018

This paper re-examines energy and nutritional available to British working-class households in the 1930s using the individual household expenditure and consumption data derived from the 1937/8 Ministry of Labour household expenditure survey and the 1938/9 individual dietary data collected by the...

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Organisational leadership : how much does it matter?

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2022

We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). Our most conservative estimates from fixed effects regressions on a panel of organisations reveal that virtuous leadership is...

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