Industry studies suggest that since 1945 there have been both contractions and expansions in the earnings differentials of skilled and semi‐skilled workers. Unpublished data from the New Earnings Survey for Britain enables further detailed study of these differentials to be made. Changes in...

Examines the behaviour of UK employment in manufacturing over the period 1964 to 1986. The use of cointegration techniques allows the separation of a long‐run equilibrium relationship for employment from its short‐run dynamics. The estimated model demonstrates a high degree of parameter...

This article examines the incidence and determinants of payment‐by‐results systems in Britain. Data at the establishment level are used to estimate a probit model which identifies those structural characteristics that impact on the choice of payment system for manual workers.