The use of occupational regulation as a mechanism for increasing the demand for, and supply of, skills was considered alongside other measures, as part of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills' Review of Employer Collective Measures. However, that Review acknowledged the general topic of...

NIESR's Annual Report for the year 2000. Contents include: Chairman's preface Director's report Research in 2000 Publicising institute research Supporters of the institute Financial Summary People at the institute

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 since New Labour first came to power. It assesses the extent and nature of...

The book reviews the state of the UK labour market following the recent recession.

This report presents a descriptive analysis of employment relations in small and medium-sized private-sector enterprises (SMEs) using data from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004). WERS 2004 is the fifth in a series of surveys that are regarded as one of the most...

This chapter describes, and seeks to explain, the changing patterns of workplace conflict over the period 1980-2004.

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain and that this effect is larger when unionization is...

Newspaper report on Bryson A and Forth J (2007) \\\'Are there day of the week productivity effects\\\', Manpower Human Resources Lab Discussion Paper No. 4, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. Paper available at: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/mhrldp0004.pdf

This report examined the relationship between the provision of equal opportunities and practices and attitudes of disadvantaged groups towards the organisation for which they work. It also examined the relationship between equal opportunity provision and practices and the benefits to businesses...