Are You Unhappy Having Minority Co-Workers?

Getinet Haile

No 7423, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper attempts to establish empirically whether natives' job satisfaction is adversely affected by having minority co-worker(s). The paper uses nationally representative linked employer-employee data and eight different facets of job satisfaction. Measuring minority co-worker status at the workplace- and occupation-level and employing alternative econometric estimators; the paper finds that on average natives' experience a reduction in job satisfaction due to having minority co-worker(s). The effect found is larger if the co-worker-ship is at the occupation-level.

Keywords: discrimination; job-related well-being; linked employer-employee data; Britain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J15 J7 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2013-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hap, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-lma, nep-ltv, nep-mig and nep-soc
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