The issue of worker satisfaction is important both for the sake of individuals themselves and also for employers for whom happy staff should be productive staff. Highly satisfied staff have been shown to have lower propensities to quit and to be absent. Whilst there have been some interesting...

This paper investigates changes in the use of generic skills in Britain's workplaces, and examines which generic skills may be having an impact on wages over and above traditional human capital indicators such as education and work experience. We use instruments borrowed and adapted from...