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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
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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The Wage Impact of Trade Unionsin the UK Public and Private Sectors
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premiumin the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membershipwage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range ofindividual, job and...
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps throughout the Earnings Distribution
Phan, Van; Singleton, Carl; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; … - 2022
Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, despite growing evidence of their wage-setting...
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The Micro-Foundations of Employment Systems: An Empirical Case Study of Britain and France
Amossé, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Petit, Héloïse - 2023
Building on existing studies of national employment systems, we take a multi-dimensional approach to comparative employment relations where the national level remains meaningful but which emphasises within-country dynamics and heterogeneity. Analysing nationally representative workplace surveys...
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Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2014
Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour market outcomes over the period 1990-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine...
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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S.
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014
inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … direct attention to the fundamental role of establishment-level pay setting and economic adjustments in earnings inequality. …
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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - 2014
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...
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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Bryan, Mark L.; Bryson, Alex - 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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Union wage effects
Bryson, Alex - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …
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