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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election

Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …

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Span of Control and Span of Activity

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...

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Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Industry

Eriksson, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … fully explained by differences in experience and other productivity-related characteristics. Second, conditioning on those …

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …

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Sexism at work

Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

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