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Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Laroche, Patrice - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain and that this effect is larger when unionization is...

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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...

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Team performance and the optimal spread of talent

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Alex Bryson and colleagues use US baseball data to investigate whether performance suffers if there is too wide a gap between the skills of a team's stars and the rest.

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Import Competition from and Outsourcing to China: A Curse or Blessing for Firms?

Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … to China reduce firm employment growth and induce skill upgrading. In contrast, industry-level imports have no effect on … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …

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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

the removal of product-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import … European technology upgrading over 2000-2007 (and even higher when allowing for offshoring to China). Rising Chinese import …

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Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China

Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Optimal production decisions depend on local market characteristics. This paper develops a model to explain firm labor demand and firm density across regions. Firms vary in their technology to combine imperfectly substitutable worker types, and locate across regions with distinct distributions...

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What is 'Firm Heterogeneity' in Trade Models? The Role of Quality, Scope, Markups and Cost

Hottman, Colin; Redding, Stephen J.; Weinstein, David E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We estimate a structural model of heterogeneous multiproduct firms to examine the sources of firm heterogeneity emphasized in the recent trade and macro literatures. Using Nielsen barcode data on prices and sales, we estimate elasticities of substitution within and between firms, and use the...

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Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice - especially union-only voice - has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and,...

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Productivity Dispersion, Competition and Productivity Measurement

Martin, Ralf - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

A startling fact of firm level productivity analysis is the large and persistent differences in both labour productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) between firms in narrowly defined sectoral classes. The competitiveness of an industry is potentially an important factor explaining this...

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Globalisation, ICT and the Nitty Gritty of Plant Level Datasets

Martin, Ralf - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The net entry contribution to aggregate productivity growth has increased dramatically in the UK over 1990saccording to calculations based on data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD). Some recent studieshave tried to link this to other structural changes over the same period such as...

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