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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production : evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009

Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael - 2010

the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period … of games a team wins each season. We find that conditioning on average player ability, dispersion of both batting and …

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Time to go? : head coach quits and dismissals in professional football

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert - 2017

literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …

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Special ones? : the effect of Head Coaches on football team performance

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021

reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …

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Spillovers and substitutability in production

Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023

to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers …

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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation : transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...

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Slip sliding away : further union decline in Germany and Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2010

This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a common model, we present decompositions of changes in collective bargaining and worker representation...

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Workplace industrial relations in Britain, 1980 - 2004

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2006

There was a time before the first Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS80) in 1980 when what we knew of industrial relations was based primarily upon small scale surveys and case studies. WIRS80 marked a radical departure in the study of industrial relations for two reasons. First,...

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Job changes and hours changes : understanding the path of labour supply adjustment

Blundell, Richard W. (contributor); Brewer, Mike (contributor) - 2007

This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals' work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...

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The wage impact of trade unions in the UK public and private sectors

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...

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