Similar Search Results

Unions, performance-related pay and procedural justice: the case of classroom teachers

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

simultaneously offer a new role to unions as providers of ‘procedural justice services’ to both union members and employers. We … indicates that the teachers’ unions have progressively assumed a ‘procedural justice role’ since its introduction. Union action …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745802

Unions and procedural justice: an alternative to the 'common rule'

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Can unions substitute a procedural justice role for their traditional reliance on establishing a ‘common rule’? The … studies of performance pay in the British public services illustrate the potential for a procedural justice role to ensure … employees regard unions as effective vehicles for procedural justice. In this way, management can achieve better operation of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745836

Evaluation via extended orderings: empirical findings from west and east

Gaertner, Wulf; Jungeilges, Jochen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

The theoretical background of the empirical investigations to be reported in this paper are positionalist aggregation functions which are numerically representable. More concretely, the broad Borda rule is proposed as an aggregation mechanism for the case of a complete set (profile) of so-called...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928802

Can a work organization have an attitude problem? The impact of workplaces on employee attitude and economic outcomes

Bartel, Ann; Ichniowski, Casey; Kleiner, Morris; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

In this study we examine whether a workplace can induce good or bad attitudes among its employees and whether any such ¿workplace attitudes¿ affect economic outcomes. This study analyzes responses of thousands of employees working in nearly two hundred branches to the emp loyee opinion survey...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071504

Teachers before the 'threshold'

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

During the summer of 2000, the government will introduce a new system of pay and performance management for teachers. The Centre for Economic Performance is conducting a ‘before-andafter’ panel study of teachers and schools to ascertain its effects on motivation and performance. This paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745316

Optimal control of externalities in the presence of income taxation

Kaplow, Louis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

AA substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126406

Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavours

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Gaertner, Wulf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071116

Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments

Ranger, Nicola; Niehörster, Falk - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation planning in exposed coastal communities. We present a framework to support the interpretation of current long-term...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071427

Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125986

Share capitalism and worker wellbeing

Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew E.; Freeman, Richard B.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We show that worker wellbeing is not only related to the amount of compensation workers receive but also how they receive it. While previous theoretical and empirical work has often been pre-occupied with individual performance-related pay, we here demonstrate a robust positive link between the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183323