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Sheer class? The extent and sources of variation in the UK graduate earnings premium

Naylor, Robin; Smith, Jeremy; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the ¿old¿ universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Among other results, we find that there are significant differences in the occupational earnings...

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Collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition

Magda, Iga; Marsden, David; Moriconi, Simone - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They … protect low skilled wages; whereas in late transition ones, firm level agreements increase medium and especially high skilled … wages. Some cross country differences emerge in the structure of the wage premium as a result of country specific features …

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Knowledge-based economic development: mass media and the weightless economy

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

corruption. This result holds across both the entire sample (of both developed and developing countries), and only for developing …

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The CEP-OECD institutions data set (1960-2004)

Nickell, William - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This dataset contains information about the evolution of labour market institutions in twenty OECD countries from 1960 to 2004. The countries in the sample are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,...

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Where the minimum wage bites hard : the introduction of the UK national minimum wage to a low wage sector

Machin, Stephen; Manning, Alan; Rahman, Lupin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

vulnerable to minimum wage legislation. We look at the impact on both wages and employment. Our results suggest that the minimum … wage raised the wages of a large number of care home workers, causing a very big wage compression of the lower end of the …

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Connecting worlds: the translation of international auditing standards into post-Soviet audit practice

Mennicken, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper analyses the use and circulation of nternational auditing standards within a large post-Soviet Russian audit firm, as it faces up to the challenges of international harmonisation. It describes this process as one of ‘connecting worlds’ and translation. In a detailed field study...

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Accounting for collective action: resource acquisition and mobilization in British unions

Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The paper uses two data sources to map trends in resource availability for trade unions in Britain. Union resources exist on the one hand in the form of subscription income and accumulated assets shown in union accounts and, on the other, establishment level resources provided by employers and...

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Incentive pay systems and the management of human resources in France and Great Britain

Belfield, Richard; Benhamou, Salima; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Incentive pay systems have undergone major changes in recent decades. This paper investigates use of incentive pay systems in British and French private sector establishments in 2004, focusing on payment-by-results, merit pay, and profit sharing, using British and French workplace surveys: WERS...

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Institutions and the management of human resources: incentive pay systems in France and Great Britain

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Using data from large-scale establishment surveys in Britain and France, we show that incentive pay for non-managers is more widespread in France than in Britain. We explain this finding in terms of the ‘beneficial constraint’ arising from stronger employment protection in France, which...

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Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes: the case of creatine

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Hakulinen, Christian; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

treatment. Adjustments in wages cannot explain this result as they are increasing for the treated groups relative to the control …

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