Examines the main issues currently confronting economists analysing training. Contrasts the human capital and institutional approaches and indicates that both have advantages and disadvantages. Outlines the major methodological issues in the area and concludes that the eradication of bias in...

It has long been suggested that the industrial structure in Britain is partitioned along core-periphery lines, as posited in segmented labor market theory. Empirical evidence for this proposition, however, has not been strong. In contrast to previous work, this study uses establishment-level...

Using Britain's 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, this paper investigates the characteristics of establishments paying low wages immediately prior to the introduction of the UK's National Minimum Wage in April 1999. It demonstrates that a range of personal, oragnizational and...

In recent years, the impact of financial participation on financial performance has attracted considerable attention. However, financial participation is only one of a number of different schemes attempting to elicit better performance, is itself heterogeneous, and typically introduced in...