Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

Recent research in behavioral sciences presents strong evidence of poor human understanding for dynamic systems. Computer-based dynamic control tasks have an important potential for helping behavioral scientists advance research that investigates reasons for poor understanding and for helping...

This paper examines a profound paradox in current thinking on the process of globalisation. The paradox is this: many commentators, particularly those living in Anglo-Saxon countries, see one of the main likely outcomes of globalisation as being the triumph of the Ango-Saxon business model of...

This paper presents the first panel data evidence on the productivity effects of training in Germany. It uses a large and representative establishment panel data set for all profit-oriented sectors of the economy. Increasing the share of employees participating in training in the first half of a...

This paper explores the sources of bargaining power in wage negotiations, and examines how productivity and training affect wages. In the standard analyses of wage bargaining, the negotiating partners are specified a priori, and thus it is impossible to address the question of how they achieve...

Despite the growing significance afforded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in contemporary Britain, much of the industrial relations (IR) literature in this country is based on research undertaken in large organisations. The minority of IR studies that are focused upon smaller firms...

Wage inequality is a particular focus of attention not only in public debates over the need for social regulation to support equity, but those over the implications of social regulation for productive performance. The present paper employs panel techniques to examine the comparative historical...