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Anticipation, free-rider problem, and adaptation to trade union: re-examining the curious case of dissatisfied union members

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010

This paper documents evidence that rejects the paradox of dissatisfied union members. Using eleven waves of the BHPS, it studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on job satisfaction. By separating union free-riders from other nonmembers in the fixed effects...

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The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain

Pencavel, John H. - 2003

After expanding in the 1970s, unionism in Britain contracted substantially over the next two decades. This paper argues that the statutory reforms in the 1980s and 1990s were of less consequence in accounting for the decline of unionism than the withdrawal of the state?s indirect support for...

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Heterogeneity in union status and employee well-being

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael J. - 2012

This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one's own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...

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Pay enough, don't pay too much or don't pay at all? The impact of bonus intensity on job satisfaction

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2010

Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus status and the utility derived from work. After controlling for individual heterogeneity biases,...

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Team structure and the effectiveness of collective performance pay

Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma; Vergé, Thibaud - 2012

The adoption of performance related pay schemes has become increasingly popular in the public sector of several … countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …

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Social incentives in the workplace

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2009

performance is positive. The results suggest that firms can exploit social incentives as an alternative to monetary incentives to …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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On the determinants of pay of CEOs in UK public sector higher education institutions

Bachan, Ray - 2008

fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …

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Employee training and wage dispersion: white and blue collar workers in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2010

We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the...

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Incentives in the public sector: Evidence from a government agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - 2012

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …

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