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Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?

Bryson, Alex - 2019

Focusing on private sector workplaces in Britain, we investigate whether the employment of older workers has implications for workplace performance. We find no significant association between changes in the proportion of older workers employed and changes in workplace performance. We find some...

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Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Barth, Erling - 2017

union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …

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The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees : A Sectoral Comparison

White, Michael R. - 2019

Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job attitudes pre-recession. However, high intensity HPWS has...

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High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain

White, Michael R. - 2019

Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...

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The UK's Productivity Puzzle

Bryson, Alex - 2015

The 2008 Great Recession was notable in the UK for three things: the enormity of the output shock; the muted unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity is within sector and within firm before presenting new...

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Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?

White, Michael R. - 2017

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages … and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher …

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How Selective are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Hirsch, Boris - 2014

Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider-outsider and several strands of efficiency wage theory, we find strong evidence for selective wage cuts with high-productivity...

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The Wage Curve after the Great Recession

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - 2022

potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been …

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Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022

We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …

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Labor Market Concentration and Stayers' Wages : Evidence from France

Caroli, Eve; Bassanini, Andrea; Batut, Cyprien - 2022

We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers' wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who … of stayers' wages to labor market concentration ranges between -0.0185 and -0.0230, depending on the instrument we use … labor market, this estimate can be considered a lower bound of the effect of labor market concentration on stayers' wages in …

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