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RELATIVE WAGE FLEXIBILITY IN FOUR COUNTRIES

PISSARIDES, C.; MOGHADAM, R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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Wage disparities in Britain: people or place?

Gibbons, Stephen; Overman, Henry G.; Pelkonen, Panu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper investigates wage disparities across sub-national labour markets in Britain using anewly available microdata …

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Young Canadians’ apprenticeship labour in user-generated content

Shepherd, Tamara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

-generated content (UGC) as a kind of apprenticeship labour. Based on case studies of four young Montréalers engaged in creating user …-generated content, the author developed the apprenticeship-type model of UGC labour to denote a process by which online immaterial … labour or “free labour” coincides with self-directed and informal job training, channelled specifically toward a career in …

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THE EFFECTS OF UNIONS ON CORPORATE INVESTMENT: EVIDENCE FROM ACCOUNTS DATA, 1972-86

WADHWANI, S.; WALL, M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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ESTIMATES OF STATIC AMD DYNAMIC MODELS OF WAGE DETERMINATION IN LABOR- MANAGED FIRMS

ESTRIN, S.; SVEJNAR, J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1988

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What voice do British workers want?

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The problems/need for representation and participation reported by workers vary across workplaces and by types of jobs. Workers with greater workplace needs are more desirous of unions but their preferences are fine-grained. Workers want unions to negotiate wages and work conditions and for...

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Trading places: employers, unions and the manufacture of voice

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and, in particular, direct voice. On the other hand, union-based voice regimes …

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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New media, firms, ideas, and growth: European cities after Gutenberg

Dittmar, Jeremiah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Gutenberg's printing press was the great revolution in Renaissance information technology. This paper presents new evidence on media markets, knowledge transmission, and city growth across Europe 1450-1600. The paper construct- s comprehensive firm-level panel data on the number and subjects of...

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Information technology, organization, and productivity in the public sector: evidence from police departments

Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change, labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associated with increased administrative and organizational...

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