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

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Haile, Getinet Astatike () (Policy Studies Institute)

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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.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 4077.

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Keywords: gender diversity; job-related well-being; linked employer-employee data; Britain;

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J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J82 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Labor Force Composition
J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare

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