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Comparatively open: statutory information disclosure for consultation and bargaining in Germany, France and the UK

Gospel, Howard; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Information provision is an important part of all mechanisms which give employees voice at work. This paper considers the law on information disclosure for joint consultation and collective bargaining in three countries, Germany, France, and the UK, chosen for their distinctive legal and...

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The end of national models in employment relations?

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

The erosion of a number of national systems of employment relations, and the evidence fromlarge scale workplace surveys has brought attention to the considerable diversity ofemployment systems within major economies. This essay applies the theory of evolutionarygames to explain the diffusion of...

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Union organization in Great Britain

Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Union membership and density in Britain has experienced substantial decline since 1979. The fall in private sector membership and density has been much greater than in the public sector. The size of the union sector, measured by employer recognition, has shrunk. Membership decline has been...

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Unions and productivity, financial performance and investment: international evidence

Metcalf, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

, financial performance is likely to be worse. If the product market is uncompetitive this might imply a simple transfer from … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … the productivity performance of the workplace or firm. The evidence indicates that, in the USA, workplaces with both high …

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Incentive pay systems and the management of human resources in France and Great Britain

Belfield, Richard; Benhamou, Salima; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Incentive pay systems have undergone major changes in recent decades. This paper investigates use of incentive pay systems in British and French private sector establishments in 2004, focusing on payment-by-results, merit pay, and profit sharing, using British and French workplace surveys: WERS...

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The structure of wages in what should be a competitive labour market

Machin, Stephen; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper examines the structure of wages in a very specific labour market, for care assistants in residential homes for the elderly on England''s "sunshine coast". This sector corresponds closely to economists'' notion of what should be a competitive labour market as: (i) there are a large...

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Institutions and the management of human resources: incentive pay systems in France and Great Britain

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Using data from large-scale establishment surveys in Britain and France, we show that incentive pay for non-managers is more widespread in France than in Britain. We explain this finding in terms of the ‘beneficial constraint’ arising from stronger employment protection in France, which...

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Individual employee voice: renegotiation and performance management in public services

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

performance management in the public services are used to illustrate these processes. The article concludes with a discussion of … that should be taken into account, and in particular looking at the potential of performance management as one such form. …

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Chinese unions: nugatory or transforming? An 'Alice' analysis

Metcalf, David; Li, Jianwei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

China has, apparently, more trade union members than the rest of the world put together. But the unions do not function in the same way as western trade unions. In particular Chinese unions are subservient to the Partystate. The theme of the paper is the gap between rhetoric and reality. Issues...

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The anatomy of union decline in Britain: 1990-1998

Charlwood, Andy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

To what extent can the decline in British trade union density between 1990 and 1998 be attributed to declining opportunities to unionize compared to declining propensity to unionize among workers with the opportunity to do so and to compositional change? This question is answered using data to...

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