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Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?

Mark, Bryan; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (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...

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The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, Rene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …

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Wage equations, wage curves and all that

Bell, Brian; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

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The incidence of an earned income tax credit: evaluating the impact on wages in the UK

Azmat, Ghazala Yasmeen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Tax credits have been a popular way to alleviate in-work poverty. The assumption is typically that the incidence is on the claimant workers. However, economic theory suggests no particular reason to believe that this should be the case. This paper investigates the incidence of the Working...

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The employment effects of the October 2003 increase in the national minimum wage

Dickens, Richard; Draca, Mirko - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

There is a growing body of research that measures employment effects of the minimum wage by using longitudinal data on individuals to compare job loss of workers affected by a minimum wage increase with those who are not directly affected. This sort of study requires good quality wage data in...

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Privatization, entry regulation and the decline of labor's share of GDP: a cross-country analysis of the network industries

Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …

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The volatility of earnings: evidence from high-frequency firm-level data

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …

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