Do all job changes increase wellbeing?

Longhi, Simonetta, Nandi, Alita, Bryan, Mark, Connolly, Sara and Gedikli, Cigdem (2025) Do all job changes increase wellbeing? Industrial Relations, 64 (1). pp. 23-39. ISSN 0019-8676

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Abstract

We provide a comprehensive framework, based on person–environment fit, for evaluating the relationship between types of job change and wellbeing, and estimate it using fixed-effects methods applied to UK longitudinal data. Changing job is associated with large swings in job satisfaction, but not all job changes are equal. Changes in workplace are associated with increased job satisfaction only when they are associated with a change in job role. The largest associations are for changing employers. These associations extend beyond job satisfaction to mental health and, to a lesser extent, life satisfaction. Changes in broader wellbeing are especially pronounced for women.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	AC K NOW L E D G M E N T S This work is part of the Work, Learning, and Wellbeing program of the What Works Wellbeing Centre (www.whatworkswellbeing.org). We acknowledge the support of our funding partners, administered through Economic and Social Research Council Grant ES/N003586/1. Understanding Society is an initiative funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and various Government Departments, with scientific leadership by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, and survey delivery by NatCen Social Research and Kantar Public. The research data are distributed by the UK Data Service. Researchers may apply for the research data from the UK Data Service. For replication purposes, the authors are able to provide on request all the code to derive the intermediate and final datasets from the research data, and the code to replicate the analysis.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	industrial relations,strategy and management,organizational behavior and human resource management,management of technology and innovation,sdg 3 - good health and well-being,sdg 9 - industry, innovation, and infrastructure ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1410
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
Related URLs:	https://www.scopus.com/pages/publication...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	19 May 2026 11:53
Last Modified:	19 May 2026 11:53
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103091
DOI:	10.1111/irel.12354

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