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Does High Involvement Management Improve Worker Wellbeing?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than "like" employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a model...

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Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749

Leunig, Tim; Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London between 1600 and 1749, we find little evidence that networks strongly shaped...

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The Growth of Extended 'Entry Tournaments' and the Decline of Institutionalised Occupational Labour Markets in Britain

Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

In recent years, British labour markets have been characterised by a decline of institutional regulation of entry routes into many occupations and internal labour markets. This paper examines this change by comparing occupational labour markets for selected occupations in which institutional...

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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Evidence from British Panel Data

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. But there are …-related training on direct measures of productivity. We construct a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996 containing … training, productivity and wages. Using a variety of econometric estimation techniques (including system GMM) we find that …

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Impact of Work Experience and Training in the Current and Previous Occupations on Earnings: Micro Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

Dougherty, C - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

In the empirical literature on work experience, job tenure, training and earnings, only one previous study has made a … has made the distinction with respect to training. Yet it is reasonable to hypothesize that the distinction is important … independent effect. Similarly it is found that the distinction between training for current and previous occupations gives better …

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Computers are even more important than you thought: An Analysis of the changing skill-intensity of jobs

Felstead, A; Gallie, D; Green, F - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

We investigate the impact of computer usage at work and other job features on the changing skills required of workers. We compare skills utilisation in Britain at three data points: 1986, 1992 and 1997, using responses to identical questions on comparable surveys. We question the validity of...

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Are public sector employees overcompensated?

Danzer, Alexander; Dolton, Peter - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Alexander Danzer and Peter Dolton use the concept of 'total reward' to assess whether public sector pay and pensions are too high relative to the private sector.

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Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform

Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job...

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