DTI Occasional Paper in Economics No. 4. Edited volume of papers presented at a DTI-funded one-day conference on 16th September 2005 at the British Academy, London. Includes contributions from Ed Lazear and John Addison among others, plus an introduction from Alex Bryson, John Forth and...

We review the existing literature which is pertinent to the study of the economic effects of terrorism in Northern Ireland. Chapters 2-4 broadly set the scene for the study of terrorism and economic activity in Northern Ireland. Chapter 2 begins by mapping out the chronology of major events...

Presented at the Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Study Group (WPEG) Annual Conference, University of Kent

This chapter of the Guidelines discusses in detail some of the practicalities of administering linked surveys of employers and employees within a multi-country, European context. It draws upon the survey methods literature and the experience of the MEADOW consortium in order to identify...

Despite its potential to raise productivity, performance-related-pay (PRP) is not widespread in market-oriented economies. Furthermore, despite secular changes conducive to its take-up, there is mixed evidence as to whether it has become more prominent over time. Ours is the first paper to...

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...

Presented at an Acas/TUC Leading Change Seminar

Despite much debate about the productivity effects of flexible working and the regulation of working hours little attention is paid to temporal variance in productivity. This paper explains why one might expect to see productivity differences across days of the week. Although there is scant...

Presentation at the CEP's labour workshop on the labour market for top executives in China's publicly listed firms, 2001-2010