Presentation to Annual WPEG Conference 2013, Sheffield.

Reports the main findings from the 2004 workplace employment relations survey (WERS 2004) conducted by the DTI, Acas, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Policy Studies Institute. This fifth survey in the series provides a nationally representative account of the state of employment...

Using linked employer–employee data for all China's public listed firms over the period 2001–10, we find top executive compensation exhibits many of the traits familiar in the Western literature, although sometimes in a more muted way, and with some clear exceptions. We also find a role for...

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...