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How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

This paper uses nationally representative linked workplace-employee data from the British 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the operation of shared capitalist forms of pay - profit-sharing and group pay for performance, employee share ownership, and stock options—and their...

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Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice - especially union-only voice - has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and,...

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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?

Bryan, Mark; Bryson, Alex - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...

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Trade Union Membership and Influence 1999-2009

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper analyses the continued decline of trade unions in Britain and examines the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. Membership of trade unions declined precipitously in the 1980s and 1990s. The rate of decline has slowed in the most recent decade, but we...

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Do Higher Wages Come at a Price?

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

higher wages are associated with higher job satisfaction and higher job anxiety. However, we observe a positive association … between higher wages and non-pecuniary job satisfaction, which disappears with the inclusion of our effort measures. Thus high … effort levels provide high levels of non-pecuniary job satisfaction and higher wages, in contrast to what compensating wage …

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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...

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Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing

Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew E.; Freeman, Richard B.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

levels, which suggests these pay methods provide utility to workers in addition to that through higher wages. These findings …

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The Evolution of the Modern Worker: Attitudes to Work

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper examines how employees' experiences of, and attitudes towards, work have changed over the last quarter of a century. It assesses the extent to which any developments relate to the economic cycle and to trends in the composition of the British workforce. Many of the findings are...

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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work …

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Why Are Migrants Paid More?

Bryson, Alex; Rossi, Giambattista; Simmons, Rob - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

In efficient global labour markets for very high wage workers one might expect wage differentials between migrant and domestic workers to reflect differences in labour productivity. However, using panel data on worker-firm matches in a single industry over a seven year period we find a...

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