This paper uses linked employer-employee data to investigate the relationship between employees? subjective well-being and workplace performance in Britain. The analyses show a clear, positive and statistically-significant relationship between the average level of job satisfaction at the workplace and workplace performance. This finding is present in both cross-sectional and panel analyses and is robust to various estimation methods and model specifications. In contrast, we find no association between levels of job-related affect and workplace performance.

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15 July 2015     Paper Number CEPDP1363

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This CEP discussion paper is published under the centre's Labour programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Causes and effects of wellbeing, Work and wellbeing