This chapter describes and seeks to explain the changing patterns of diversity in the labour market over the period 1980-2004

A priori it is unclear whether empirical findings on the nature of CEO compensation based on Western developed economies should generalise to the compensation of top executives in China's listed companies. Although China is developing a market-oriented economy it remains a Communist regime in...

Although China is now the second largest economy in the world, we know little about what influences the use of executive incentives outside the public listed sector. This paper is the first to examine incentive contracts for CEO\\\'s across all sectors of the economy. We do so using World Bank...

This chapter describes the changing incidence and nature of workplace employee representation over the period 1980-2004, focusing in particular on union shop stewards

This paper provides a description of the data resources that are available from the WERS series to facilitate analyses of changes in employment relations over the period 1980-2004. It introduces both the time-series dataset, compiled from the five cross-section surveys in the WERS series, and...

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Presentation to the TUC on changes in union effectivenss since the mid-1990s and the implications for union organizing

In this presentation, made at a DBIS seminar on trade union membership, we analyse the continued decline of trade unions and examine the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. The research focuses particularly on the fortunes of trade unions in the decade or so...

A 90-page guide to the analysis of the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998. The guide contains chapters on the following topics: - Necessary preparation before beginning your analysis - Finding your way around the WERS98 data files - Weighting and its implications for univariate, bivariate...