This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well-being. Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain, I employ econometric techniques that account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find...

The world agricultural trade system has experienced tremendous changes in recent years. Agri-food systems are increasingly shifting towards more vertically integrated production systems that are based on commercialization and mechanization. As part of this trend, food quality and safety...

Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...

Using data from the American Bar Association's National Survey of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction (1990), the authors estimate the incidence and impact of sexual harassment in the legal profession. Nearly two thirds of female lawyers in private practice and nearly half of those in corporate...

With the rise of the service society, emotional labour has become increasingly prevalent. Emotional labour involves the production and consumption of the worker's identity as part of the customer service experience. However, emotional labour requires the performance of appropriate or moral...

This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the paradox of the contented female worker". After establishing that females report higher levels of job satisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost...