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A Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure.

Nickell, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are consistent because the four largest countries in...

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Explaining Job Polarization in Europe: The Roles of Technology, Globalization and Institutions

Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan; Salomons, Anna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

estimates a simple model to capture the effects of technology, globalization, institutions and product demand effects on the … attenuate the polarizing impact of routinization and that differences or changes in wage-setting institutions play little role …

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A Model of Equilibrium Institutions

Guimaraes, Bernardo; Sheedy, Kevin D. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Institutions that serve the interests of an elite are often cited as an important reason for poor economic performance …. This paper builds a model of institutions that allocate resources and power to maximize the payoff of an elite, but where … any group that exerts sufficient fighting effort can launch a rebellion that destroys the existing institutions. The …

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Paying for Performance: Incentive Pay Schemes and Employees' Financial Participation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard; Lucifora, Claudio; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

We present new comparable data on the incidence of performance pay schemes in Europe and the USA. We find that the percentage of employees exposed to incentive pay schemes ranges from around 10-15 percent in some European countries to over 40 percent in Scandinavian countries and the US....

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Changes in Wage Inequality

Machin, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has been a secular increase in the 90-50 wage differential in the US and the UK since the late 1970s. By contrast the 50-10 differential rose mainly in the 1980s and flattened or...

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The Union Membership Wage Premium: An Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching

Bryson, Alex - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper estimates the size of the union membership wage premium by comparing wage outcomes for unionised workers with 'matched' non-unionised workers. The method assumes selection on observables. For this identifying assumption to be plausible, one must be able to control for all...

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Why Do Non-Union Employees Want To Unionise? Evidence from Britain

Charlwood, A - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

The introduction of a statutory recognition procedure offers British unions the opportunity to reverse membership decline by organising non-union workers. The aim of this paper is to test theories of individual union joining in order to assess the likely impact of the new procedure on British...

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Participation in Organisations: Economic Approaches

Cañibano, Almudena; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of positive results is disappointing and that one reason is that there has been a lack of theory. This paper argues that there is indeed a great deal of theory that could be used to...

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Its a Family Affair: the Effect of Union Recognition and Human Resource Management on the Provision of Equal Opportunities in the UK

Fernie, Sue; Gray, Helen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

Equal opportunities policies and family-friendly practices are examined using data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey in order to assess (i) their associations with union recognition and strategic human resource management and (ii) the outcomes of what has recently been described...

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Unions, Job Reductions and Job Security Guarantees: the Experience of British Employees

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

A national survey makes it possible to examine employees' awareness of net overall reductions in the size of the workforce along with their awareness of employer policies that promise 'no compulsory redundancies'. Differences are investigated between union and nonunion workplaces, and between...

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