This paper employs establishment level data from the annual respondents database to consider technological differences between establishments operating in the UK. We adopt very precise measures of technology, arguably much more detailed than have hitherto been employed to address the key...

We investigate the attributes of supervisors and the key correlates of the extent of their supervisory responsibilities. We find a strong correlation between wages, education, experience, firm size and the extent of supervision. One implication of this is that firms may be indifferent between...

We explore the relationship between earnings, education, and fixed-term contracts using data from the 1997 "British Social Attitudes Survey". We find that the log hourly wage of workers employed under such contracts is approximately 13% lower than that of their 'permanent' counterparts, even...

The authors apply the comparative technique originated by K. I. Wolpin (1977) to discriminate between the 'weak' and 'strong' screening hypothesizes. Controlling for self-selection, they find evidence for weak, but not strong, screening. Copyright 1998 by Scottish Economic Society.