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What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance?

Stokes, Lucy; Bryson, Alex; Wilkinson, David - 2019

the leadership roles of deputy and assistant heads and classroom-based teachers with additional leadership … typically employ more staff in leadership roles than community schools. Increases in the number of staff in leadership roles … distributing leadership within schools may only be realised when leaders have sufficient autonomy. …

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The role of the workplace in ethnic wage differentials

Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Bryson, Alex - 2021

Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...

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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

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...

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Teacher allocation and school performance in Italy

Bryson, Alex; Corsini, Lorenzo; Martelli, Irene - 2020

Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. When permanent posts do arise they are allocated mostly on seniority while merit only plays a small role. Thus, the age distribution of teachers in...

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

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

bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the …

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

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

One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little evidence establishing a causal link between leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game...

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Employee stock purchase plans : gift or incentive? ; evidence from a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - 2014

Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...

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