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Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a...
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Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 2, pp. 660-680
Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We highlight the...
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
Morefield, G. Brant; Ribar, David; Ruhm, Christopher - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011
occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …
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Why so Unhappy? The Effect of Union Membership on Job Satisfaction
Capellari, Lorenzo; Bryson, Alex; Lucifora, Claudio - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
We investigate the effect of union membership on job satisfaction. We account for the endogenous selection induced by the sorting of workers into unionised jobs and use different methodologies to address the question of how the membership decision is related to overall job satisfaction and to...
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Human Capital, Matching and Job Satisfaction
Barmby, Tim; Bryson, Alex; Eberth, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...
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Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one’s own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...
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Are You Happy While You Work?
Bryson, Alex; MacKerron, George - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This literature includes influences on individuals' momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source, Mappiness (www.mappiness.org.uk), which permits...
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Are You Happy While You Work?
Bryson, Alex; MacKerron, George - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2013
Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This literature includes influences on individuals’ momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source, Mappiness (www.mappiness.org.uk), which permits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608021
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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Human resource management: how much do firms really need?
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
More complete systems of human resource management (HRM) could deliver really extensive gains in employee motivation, according to an analysis of representative data from British workplaces by Michael White and Alex Bryson. Their research explores whether the introduction of 'high-performance...
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