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A fundamental focus of Government concern is to enhance well-being. Recently, policy makers in the UK and elsewhere have recognized the importance of the community and society to the well-being of the nation as a whole. We explore the extent to which economic and social factors influence the psychological well-being of individuals and their perceptions of the social support that they receive, using Health Survey for England data. We employ a random-effects ordered probit modelling approach and find that unobserved intrahousehold characteristics help to explain the variation in our dependent variables, particularly for co-resident females. Our results indicate that individuals with acute and chronic physical illness, who are female, unemployed or inactive in the labour market and who live in poor households or areas of multiple deprivation report lower levels of psychological well-being. Reduced perceptions of social support are associated with being male, single or post marriage, from an ethnic minority, having low educational attainment and living in a poor household, but are not statistically related to area deprivation measures. These findings may help to inform the contemporary policy debate surrounding the promotion of individual well-being and community, through the alleviation of social exclusion. Copyright 2005 Royal Statistical Society.

Life satisfaction, Neighbourhood effects, HILDA Survey, C25, I31, Z31,

Publ i c Sect or Econom i cs Research Cent re (PSERC), D epart m ent of Econom i cs, U ni versi t y of Lei cest erand Inst i t ut e f or t he St udy of Labor (IZA), Bonn W e i nvest i gat e t he det erm i nant s of percei ved raci al harassm ent at t he w orkpl ace, and i nvest i gat e i t s i m pact on j ob sat i sfact i on and qui t t i ng behavi our am ongst et hni c m i nori t y nurses. To enabl e t hi s w e use dat a from a uni que l arge-scal e survey of Bri t i sh N at i onal H eal t h Servi ce nurses. N earl y 40% of et hni c m i nori t y nurses report experi enci ng raci al harassm ent from w ork col l eagues, w hi l st m ore t han 64% report sufferi ng raci al harassm ent from pat i ent s. The experi ence of raci al harassm ent at t he w orkpl ace i s found t o l ead t o a si gni fi cant reduct i on i n j ob sat i sfact i on, w hi ch, i n t urn, si gni fi cant l y i ncreases nurses' i nt ent i ons t o qui t t hei r j ob. These resul t s are found t o be robust t o endogenei t y concerns, and have i m port ant pol i cy i m pl i cat i ons for ret ai ni ng qual i fi ed nursi ng st aff i n t he Bri t i sh N at i onal H eal t h Servi ce. K eyw ords:Raci al H arassm ent , N ursi ng, Job Sat i sfact i on, Int ent i ons t o Q ui t , D i scri m i nat i on JEL Cl assi fi cat i on: J15, J24, J71