A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects amongst those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of improvements in the economy. The authors contribute to this literature by using two data sets to establish the relationship between share prices on the one hand and worker wellbeing on the other.

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6 December 2021

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Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership 4(3) , pp.197-211, 2021

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DOI: 10.1108/JPEO-09-2021-0010

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPEO-09-2021-0010/full/html?msclkid=769d0966cfa311ec813241cd43c5a77a

This Journal article is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme, Labour programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Work and wellbeing