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Cowell, Frank; Ebert, Udo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important alternative to the mainstream welfarist approach. We show that the Temkin principles can be characterised by a parsimonious axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a...

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Measuring inequality by counting 'complaints': theory and empirics

Devooght, Kurt - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

on the concept of 'complaints' or distances between incomes. We examine the Temkin approach by means of the questionnaire … the Weighted Additive Principle and the Average view of complaints. The questionnaire results also shed some light towards …

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Gini, deprivation and complaints

Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

, founded on the notion of individual “complaints” about income distribution. Under certain specifications of the relationship … between complaints and personal incomes it can be shown that a concept similar to the concept of deprivation then emerges. In … and Lorenz orderings on the one hand and deprivation, poverty and complaints on the other hand. …

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Experiences of front-line health professionals in the delivery of telehealth: a qualitative study

MacNeill, Virginia; Sanders, Caroline; Fitzpatrick, Ray; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

qualitative study in three sites within the UK (Kent, Cornwall, and the London Borough of Newham) and embedded in the Whole …-term and complex conditions. Method: Semi-structured qualitative interviews with 32 front-line health professionals (13 …

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Do organisational climate and strategic orientation moderate the relationship between human resource management practices and productivity?

Neal, Andrew; West, Michael A.; Patterson, Malcolm G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturing companies is contingent upon organizational climate...

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It's 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 - London School of Economics (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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Looking for HRM/union substitution: evidence from British workplaces

Machin, Stephen; Wood, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

In this paper we test the HRM/union substitution hypothesis that human resource management (HRM) practices act as a substitute for unionization. We use British workplace data between 1980 and 1998 which allows us to examine for the first time whether increased HRM incidence has coincided with...

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Human resource management and productivity

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many nonpay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams, autonomy)....

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Positive employee attitudes: how much human resource management do you need?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We propose a selective view of human resource management (HRM) that is guided by work motivation theory, arguing that one of the means by which firms achieve higher performance is by investing in certain forms of HRM practice that help fulfil intrinsic work values and thereby influence...

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Motivating employee owners in ESOP firms: human resource policies and company performance

Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph; Buchele, Robert; Scharf, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

What enables some employee ownership firms to overcome the free rider problem and motivate employees to improve performance? This study analyzes the role of human resource policies in the performance of employee ownership companies, using employee survey data from 14 companies and a national...

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