How Does Innovation Affect Worker Well-being?

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CEP Discussion Paper No 953

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.

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By Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen and Erling Barth
Published Mar. 23, 2015 11:20 AM