How Does Innovation Affect Worker Well-being?

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: We explore the effects of management innovations on worker well-being using private sector linked employer-employee data for Britain. We find management innovations are associated with lower worker well-being and lower job satisfaction, an effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different count measures of innovation - a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations. The effects are ameliorated when workers are covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

Keywords: innovation; well-being; job satisfaction; trade unions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 J51 J81 L23 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hap, nep-ino and nep-lab
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