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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...

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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation

Forth, John - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : The Case of Divorced Parents

Francesconi, Marco - 2008

existing empirical literature on the impacts of welfare reform, and discuss the implications of our results for policy and …

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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

White, Michael R. - 2016

Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...

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Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation: Announcement and implementation effects

Blundell, Richard; Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, … - 2011

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Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing

Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew; Green, Colin P. - 2022

A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects among those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of improvements in...

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Voice in the wilderness? : the shift from union to non-union voice in Britain

Gómez, Rafael; Bryson, Alex; Willman, Paul - In: The Oxford handbook of participation in organizations, (pp. 383-406). 2010

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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. - 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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A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain

Bryson, Alex - 2020

After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to the Equal Pay Act. The GWG has closed across birth cohorts at all points in the adult life-cycle but remains. Within birth cohort it rises to middle age before falling again....

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