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What Do Unions Do to Executive Compensation?
Gomez, Rafael; Tzioumis, Konstantinos - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
We estimate the relation between union presence and executive compensation using a unique panel of executives in publicly listed US firms during the period 1992-2001. We find evidence that union presence is associated with lower levels of total executive compensation. We find this union effect...
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Unions, Performance-Related Pay and Procedural Justice: the Case of Classroom Teachers
Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Performance-related pay (PRP) and performance management (PM) are now a part of the organizationallandscape that unions … simultaneously offer a new role to unions as providers of 'procedural justiceservices' to both union members and employers. We … for such services fromthe teachers' unions. Further, analysis of the PRP implementation process for classroom teachers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796112
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Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionisation: Are American, British, and Canadian Workers All That Different?
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Gunderson, Morley; Meltz, Noah - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper examines demand for union membership amongst young workers in Britain, Canada and the United States. The paper benchmarks youth demands for collective representation against those of adult workers and finds that a large and significant representation gap exists in all three countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016698
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Catching a Wave: the Adoption of Voice and High Commitment Workplace Practices in Britain: 1984-1998
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. Using British data, the paper finds that variables highlighted in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150973
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A Tale of Two Countries: Unions, Closures and Growth in Britain and Norway
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
on workplace closure and employment growth over the period 1997-2004. Unions prolonged the life of low-wage workplaces in … Britain, whereas Norwegian unions increased (reduced) closure hazards in high (low) waged workplaces. Contrary to earlier … studies, unions had no effect on workplace growth in Britain. In Norway, union workplaces experienced 4 percent per annum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151043
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New Survey Evidence on Recent Changes in UK Union Recognition
Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
with the idea that the incoming Labour government had a positive effect on the ability of unions to gain recognition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797237
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Comparatively Open: Statutory Information Disclosure for Consultation and Bargaining in Germany, France and the UK
Gospel, Howard; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Information provision is an important part of all mechanisms which give employees voice atwork. This paper considers the law on information disclosure for joint consultation andcollective bargaining in three countries, Germany, France, and the UK, chosen for theirdistinctive legal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797302
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Not So Dissatisfied After All? The Impact of Union Coverage on Job Satisfaction
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
The links between unionisation and job satisfaction remain controversial. In keeping with the existing literature we find strong statistically significant negative correlations between unionisation and overall job satisfaction. However, in contrast to the previous literature we find that once...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779587
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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Bryan, Mark; Bryson, Alex - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261828
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Understanding the Gender Pay Gap: What's Competition Got to Do with It?
Manning, Alan; Saidi, Farzad - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
A number of papers have recently argued that men and women have different attitudes and behavioural responses to competition. Laboratory experiments suggest that these gender differences are very large but it is important to be able to map these findings into real world differences. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220066