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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persists it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on...

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Do temporary agency workers affect workplace performance?

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

Using nationally representative workplace data we find the use of temporary agency workers (TAW) is positively associated with financial performance in the British private sector and weakly associated with higher sales per employee. However TAW is not associated with value added per employee....

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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

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...

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Individual employee voice: renegotiation and performance management in public services

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Periodically, the ‘zone of acceptance’ within which management may use its authority to direct employees’ work needs to … element of employee voice may be very weak when new work goals and priorities are imposed unilaterally by management, and they … performance management in the public services are used to illustrate these processes. The article concludes with a discussion of …

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Form or function?: the effect of new sports stadia on property prices in London

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Kavetsos, Georgios - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Professional sports facilities are among the most expensive development projects. Assessing the external effects … for unobserved spatial heterogeneity, anticipation effects, and disentangles the stadium’s function as a sports facility …

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UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins

Blake, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

The Myners Report will have a number of significant consequences for pension fund management and performance … importance in pension fund management. Asset classes will be selected on the basis of their match with liabilities in terms of … assumes a primacy over the actuarial and fund management functions. It changes the way investment performance is measured …

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Too big to fail and too big to succeed: accounting and privatisation in the Prison Service of England and Wales

Mennicken, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper is concerned with the challenges involved in the transformation of the prison into a performance-oriented accounting entity. It examines the implication of private sector accounting and consulting expertise in redefining prison values and prison performance, and it discusses the...

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Performance of personal pension schemes in the UK

Gregory, Alan; Tonks, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper examines the performance of personal pensions (exempt unit trusts) in the UK 1980-2000. Unitised personal pension schemes are a type of mutual fund that is constituted as a contractual savings scheme, whose value can only be accessed at retirement. By studying the performance of these...

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Matchmaking: the influence of monitoring environments on the effectiveness of performance pay systems

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This study uses cross-section and panel data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to explore contextual influences on the relationship between performance-related pay (PRP) and organizational performance. While it finds strong evidence that the use of PRP can enhance performance...

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Does performance pay de-motivate, and does it matter?

French, Stephen; Kubo, Katsuyuki; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

, sales and sports personnel, our study examines PRP for large numbers of ordinary employees. …

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