How does innovation affect worker well-being?

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen and Erling Barth

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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)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2009-10
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Working Paper: How Does Innovation Affect Worker Well-being? (2009)
Working Paper: How Does Innovation Affect Worker Wellbeing? (2009)
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