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Environmental sustainability and employee satisfaction

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  • Jing, Chenxing
  • Keasey, Kevin
  • Xu, Bin

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Given the increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability, we investigate whether firm pollution drives employee satisfaction and find that satisfaction is substantially lower in more polluting firms. We also show that more educated employees, employees aged between 30 and 40, and management employees are less satisfied when their firms pollute. Additionally, employees in heavy-polluting firms are less satisfied with their senior leadership, and are less likely to recommend their firms to their friends. Overall, employees care about environmental sustainability and reducing pollution seems essential to increasing employee satisfaction.

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  • Jing, Chenxing & Keasey, Kevin & Xu, Bin, 2023. "Environmental sustainability and employee satisfaction," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:233:y:2023:i:c:s0165176523004287
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111402
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    Keywords

    Sustainability; Pollution; Employee satisfaction;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor

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