Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
Occupation and Subjective Well-Being : A Knowledge Economy Perspective. / Gritskov, Vladimir; Vartanova, Irina.
Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer Nature, 2021. p. 221-235 (Societies and Political Orders in Transition).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
}
TY - CHAP
T1 - Occupation and Subjective Well-Being
T2 - A Knowledge Economy Perspective
AU - Gritskov, Vladimir
AU - Vartanova, Irina
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Do knowledge workers have a higher level of subjective well-being (SWB) when compared to other types of employees and if it is so, why? Using the fifth round of the European Social Survey, we explore cross national differences in the effect of occupation on SWB. Specifically, we examine the mediating role of income, autonomy and work-life conflict and overall job satisfaction in the links between occupation and SWB. We find that knowledge workers have higher life satisfaction than service and manual workers but only in countries with a less developed knowledge economy. Job satisfaction and income partially explain these differences. The intervening effect of work autonomy is less straightforward. In the knowledge economies, work autonomy is strongly related to SWB but the differences between professionals and manual workers are not large. In less developed countries, knowledge workers have higher level of work autonomy than other types of occupations, but it is less important for their life satisfaction. The negative mediating impact of work-life conflict has not been confirmed, but an alarming tendency of less balanced life of professionals in comparison with blue collar workers in the knowledge economies have been observed.
AB - Do knowledge workers have a higher level of subjective well-being (SWB) when compared to other types of employees and if it is so, why? Using the fifth round of the European Social Survey, we explore cross national differences in the effect of occupation on SWB. Specifically, we examine the mediating role of income, autonomy and work-life conflict and overall job satisfaction in the links between occupation and SWB. We find that knowledge workers have higher life satisfaction than service and manual workers but only in countries with a less developed knowledge economy. Job satisfaction and income partially explain these differences. The intervening effect of work autonomy is less straightforward. In the knowledge economies, work autonomy is strongly related to SWB but the differences between professionals and manual workers are not large. In less developed countries, knowledge workers have higher level of work autonomy than other types of occupations, but it is less important for their life satisfaction. The negative mediating impact of work-life conflict has not been confirmed, but an alarming tendency of less balanced life of professionals in comparison with blue collar workers in the knowledge economies have been observed.
KW - European population
KW - Job satisfaction
KW - Knowledge economy
KW - Subjective well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116880006&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-75813-4_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-75813-4_11
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85116880006
T3 - Societies and Political Orders in Transition
SP - 221
EP - 235
BT - Societies and Political Orders in Transition
PB - Springer Nature
ER -
ID: 91886018