A Dimming of the ‘Warm Glow’? Are Non-Profit Workers in the UK Still More Satisfied with their Jobs than Other Workers?

Chiara Paola Donegani, Stephen McKay and Domenico Moro

A chapter in Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, 2012, pp 313-342 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Research has long shown that employees working for non-profit organisations report a higher level of job satisfaction than workers in other sectors. This chapter investigates trends in job satisfaction using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (1992–2008/2009), through models which contain detailed information on individual, job and organisational characteristics. We use fixed-effects ordered-logit models to investigate job satisfaction taking account of our panel structure and the nature of the job satisfaction dependent variable. The results suggest an important, non-profit premium in job satisfaction which, contradicting the apparent bivariate evidence, is not changing over time (in appropriate models) – the warm glow of higher job satisfaction remains.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; non-profit sector; warm glow theory; Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1108/S0885-3339(2012)0000013015

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