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The self selection of migrant workers revisited
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Work of low-skilled migrant workers from developing countries in developed economies is a growing phenomenon and a key political and economic issue. An extensive literature has found (for the most part) that these workers come from the lower part of the skill distribution. This paper revisits...
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Bankers' pay and extreme wage inequality in the UK
Bell, Brian; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
It is well known that the distribution of income in the United Kingdom has widened considerably in the last three decades. This rise has been a result of a widening at both the top and bottom of the wage distribution. More recently, most of the action appears to have occurred at the top of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071347
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Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes: the case of creatine
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Hakulinen, Christian; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
holiday per year, which should lead to adjustments in employment. For employees I use complementary log-log regression to … account for right-censoring of employment spells. I find no increase in the hazard to exit employment within a year after …. I also evaluate the long run trend in aggregate employment, using the predicted treatment probabilities in a difference …
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Knowledge-based hierarchies: using organizations to understand the economy
Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the...
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The UK productivity and jobs puzzle: does the answer lie in labour market flexibility?
Pessoa, João Paulo; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
GDP per worker fell for the five years after 2008 which is unprecedented in post war UK history. In this paper we argue that “capital shallowing” (i.e. the fall in the capital-labour ratio) could be the main reason for this. This is likely to have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126109
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Accounting for collective action: resource acquisition and mobilization in British unions
Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The paper uses two data sources to map trends in resource availability for trade unions in Britain. Union resources exist on the one hand in the form of subscription income and accumulated assets shown in union accounts and, on the other, establishment level resources provided by employers and...
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Incentive pay systems and the management of human resources in France and Great Britain
Belfield, Richard; Benhamou, Salima; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Incentive pay systems have undergone major changes in recent decades. This paper investigates use of incentive pay systems in British and French private sector establishments in 2004, focusing on payment-by-results, merit pay, and profit sharing, using British and French workplace surveys: WERS...
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Institutions and the management of human resources: incentive pay systems in France and Great Britain
Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
stronger employment protection in France, which provides an impulse to develop incentive pay; employer networking activities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746280
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Sheer class? The extent and sources of variation in the UK graduate earnings premium
Naylor, Robin; Smith, Jeremy; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the ¿old¿ universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Among other results, we find that there are significant differences in the occupational earnings...
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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, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of ln earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
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