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Who is better off? Wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere

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  • Alex Bryson
  • Lucy Stokes
  • David Wilkinson

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Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain we find school staff are more satisfied with their jobs than employees in other workplaces, but the difference disappears when controlling for perceived non-pecuniary job quality. School employees are more committed to their organization than non-school employees, a difference that remains large and statistically significant having conditioned on job quality and other features of employees’ working environment. Using panel data for workplaces and their employees observed in 2004 and 2011 we find increases in organizational commitment are linked to improvements in workplace performance in schools, but not in other workplaces.

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  • Alex Bryson & Lucy Stokes & David Wilkinson, 2019. "Who is better off? Wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(5), pages 488-506, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:edecon:v:27:y:2019:i:5:p:488-506
    DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2019.1623178
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    1. John Jerrim & Sam Sims & Rebecca Allen, 2021. "The mental health and wellbeing of teachers in England," DoQSS Working Papers 21-01r, Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London.
    2. Esther Pagán-Castaño & Javier Sánchez-García & Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon & María Guijarro-García, 2021. "The Influence of Management on Teacher Well-Being and the Development of Sustainable Schools," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-23, March.

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