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Alan Manning offers insights on trends in workers switching or leaving jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
17 November 2021
Academics in the Surrey Business School at the University of Surrey have received a research grant from the Department of Health and Social Care to study causes of the gender pay gap in the medical profession.... Read more...
29 May 2018
Jordi Blanes i Vidal, a professor at the London School of Economics, said such a system would work best in areas such as sales where there are clear markers of performance. He said: 'But in s... Read more...
01 April 2018
CEO pay is quickly outpacing gyours. In 2016, the CEOs of the top 350 U.S. firms earned on average $15.6 million. “There are CEOs getting paid hundreds of millions,” Stanford economics profes... Read more...
22 January 2018
… the share price of companies did worse than the company's ceo who actually paid less than average so if anything what you see now is actually pay for underperformance that us companies and there&#... Read more...
06 October 2017
Women’s role in the US economy has exploded since WWII. In fact, the employment rate for women of prime working age more than doubled in the second half of the 20th century. There are a lot of reaso... Read more...
04 October 2017
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth The issue of public sector pay went centre-stage recently in the debate over whether to lift the public sector pay cap. Presumably one of the key factors, alongside where the r... Read more...
25 July 2017
See this study by Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen. This article was published online by the Bloomberg Gadfly blog on September 2, 2016 Link to article here Related Publications Decoupling of Wage Growth and... Read more...
02 September 2016
For the past decade, Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and a rotating crew of co-authors (most consistently MIT's John Van Reenen) have been documenting that the management best practices developed at high-performing com... Read more...
22 August 2016
Article by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen Lacklustre growth seems to be the new normal almost everywhere in the world except for one area - CEO pay. This column uses data on UK publicly listed firms to examine whether ... Read more...
05 August 2016
Brian Bell and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have carried out a similar exercise looking at top bosses' pay at 500 large listed UK companies between 1999 and 2014. Unl... Read more...
27 July 2016
And if income inequality were not related to our kind, our ethnicity or our level of education, but rather to our workplace? Some employers pay better than others. And the gap between those who pay well and those who pay... Read more...
21 July 2016
Corporate greed isn't good, but it might not be as bad for inequality as we thought - or at least not in the way we thought. Now it seems pretty obvious that inequality must have something to do with executive pay. After... Read more...
29 May 2015
The economist Alan Manning recently gave a public lecture at the London School of Economics, where he drew parallels between the Equal Pay Act and the minimum wage, pointing out that in both cases theoretical concerns we... Read more...
27 March 2015
ESRC-funded research provided crucial evidence for the introduction of a UK National Minimum Wage in 1999, encompassing 1.3 million workers in 2013. The research was cited prior to minimum wage legislation in Hong Kong i... Read more...
19 January 2015
Permanent low pay threatens to overtake us, with the Treasury, hit by lower tax receipts, facing an ever-rising benefits bill. On Wednesday Steve Machin, research director at the LSE's centre for economic performance,... Read more...
23 October 2014
Publicly traded companies are the engine behind China's growth, which raises the question of how CEO compensation works under an interventionist state. This column presents an analysis of executive compensation in China ... Read more...
24 June 2014
Over a whole career, men in the public sector will earn the same as their commercial peers - and women will do better. It is essential that any proposed reforms of the total remuneration package available to current and... Read more...
01 October 2012
Executive Pay: Share ownership by institutional investors improves the link to corporate performance Publicly quoted UK firms with higher levels of institutional ownership of their shares have a stronger and mo... Read more...
04 May 2012
Research carried out by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen at the LSE has found that the performance of firms could explain between one-quarter and one-half of the rise in the gap between the pay of workers and chief execu... Read more...
08 November 2011