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Family-Friendly Working: What a Performance! An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Availability of Family-Friendly Policies and Establishment Performance
Gray, Helen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016998
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The Impact of an Innovative Human Resource Function on Firm Performance: the Moderating Role of Financing Strategy
Dawson, J; Knight-Turvey, Neal; Neal, Andrew; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategyon the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from aresource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theoryperspective on capital structure....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670421
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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the US
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945132
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A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class - a coarse measure of student performance used in the UK - causally affects graduates' industry and hence expected wages. To control for unobserved ability, we employ a regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146148
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Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by increases in postgraduate education. We document increases in the number of workers with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293677
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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a large birth cohort can expect an earnings loss of roughly 18 … percent over the course of an average career as compared to a small birth cohort counterpart. The loss in earnings is driven …
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Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents
Boehm, Michael J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652266
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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?
Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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The Gender Gap in Early Career Wage Growth
Manning, Alan; Swaffield, Joanna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
In the UK the gender pay gap on entry to the labour market is approximately zero but after ten years after labour market entry, there is a gender wage gap of almost 25 log points. This paper explores the reason for this gender gap in early-career wage growth, considering three main hypotheses -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510458
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The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence
Faggio, Giulia; Salvanes, Kjell; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...
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