Unhappy Working with Men? Workplace Gender Diversity and Employee Job-Related Well-Being in Britain: A WERS2004 Based Analysis

Getinet Haile

No 4077, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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 that gender diversity is associated with lower employee well-being among women in several of the equations estimated. The magnitudes of the estimated effects also tend to increase with (women's) group size. Workplace equality policies do not appear to ameliorate these effects.

Keywords: linked employer-employee data; job-related well-being; gender diversity; Britain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J16 J7 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2009-03
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Published - Published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 329-350

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