Also published as Research Report 177, London, DfEE. To view, click here .

Manpower Human Resources Lab Discussion Paper No. 4, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics.

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Using panel data for all of China's public listed firms over the period 2001-2010 we examine how firms have recruited and rewarded their executives over a decade of huge growth and turbulence. CEO pay is sensitive to firm performance, although the elasticities are lower than for the United...

John Forth gave an overview of the research evidence on the prevalence and effects of licences to practice, based on work funded by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. The seminar was organised by the National Skills Forum and the Associate Parliamentary Skills Group. It was held in the...

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain and that this effect is larger when unionization is...

This report presents findings from the 2011 Employers Pension Provision Survey (EPP 2011). The survey was the ninth in a series, with previous surveys having been conducted in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. The main aim of the report is to describe the extent and nature of...

This paper examines how employees' experiences of, and attitudes towards, work have changed over the last quarter of a century. It assesses the extent to which any developments relate to the economic cycle and to trends in the composition of the British workforce. Many of the findings are...

This review focuses on pay variance across workers, employers and across time and illustrates how theories of pay determination can shed light on this variance. We discuss the limitations of the orthodox economic approach to pay setting and emphasise the importance of labour market imperfections...

Despite their theoretical value in tackling principal-agent problems at low cost to firms there is almost no empirical literature on the prevalence and correlates of performance bonds posted by corporate executives. Using data for China we examine their incidence and test propositions from...