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CEP discussion paper
All-star or benchwarmer? Relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

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. Fir...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tingting Zhang

10 February 2015

CentrePiece article
Team performance and the optimal spread of talent

Alex Bryson and colleagues use US baseball data to investigate whether performance suffers if there is too wide a gap between the skills of a team's stars and the rest....Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Kerry L. Papps

June 2011

CEP discussion paper
Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team le...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Kerry L. Papps

October 2010

CEP discussion paper
Employee Voice and Private Sector Workplace Outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004

Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Tobias Kretschmer and P Willman

April 2009

CEP discussion paper
Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice

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 fi...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

August 2008

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper
From the Two Faces of Unionism to the Facebook Society: Union Voice in a 21st Century Context

Union membership has declined precipitously in the US over the past 40 years. Can anything be done to stem this decline? This paper argues that union voice is an attribute (among others) of union membership that is exper...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

April 2008

CEP discussion paper
What Do Unions Do to Executive Compensation?

We estimate the relation between union presence and executive compensation using a unique panel of executives in publicly listed US firms during the period 1992-2001. We find evidence that union presence is associated wi...Read more...

Rafael Gomez and Konstantinos Tzioumis

Revised November 2011

CEP discussion paper
Catching a Wave: the Adoption of Voice and High Commitment Workplace Practices in Britain: 1984-1998

In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. U...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tobias Kretschmer

February 2005

CEP discussion paper
Why Do Voice Regimes Differ?

In this paper we seek to explain the emergence of different voice regimes, and to do so by using approaches from institutional economics. In particular we analyse the emergence of different voice regimes as a contracting...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

November 2003

CEP discussion paper
Why Have Workers Stopped Joining Unions?

This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (?nevermembers?) since the early 1980s and shows that it is the reduced likelihood of ever becoming a member rather than the h...Read more...

Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

November 2003

CEP discussion paper
Segmentation, Switching Costs and the Demand for Unionization in Britain

This paper explains why some employees who favor unionization fail to join, and why others who wish to abandon union membership continue paying dues. Our explanation is based on a model where employees incur switching (s...Read more...

Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

May 2003

CEP discussion paper
Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionisation: Are American, British, and Canadian Workers All That Different?

This paper examines demand for union membership amongst young workers in Britain, Canada and the United States. The paper benchmarks youth demands for collective representation against those of adult workers and finds th...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz

January 2002

CEP discussion paper
From 'Playstations' to 'Workstations': Youth Preferences for Unionisation in Canada

Differences in preferences for unions between youths and adults in Canada are analysed based on a survey of approximately 1500 persons. The results indicate that the preferences of youth for unionisation are strongly inf...Read more...

Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz

September 2001

CEP discussion paper
Frustrated Demand for Unionisation: the Case of the United States and Canada Revisited

In this paper we demonstrate that there is a substantial union representation gap in the United States. We arrive at this conclusion by comparing Canadian and American worker responses to questions relating to desired un...Read more...

Rafael Gomez, Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah Meltz

April 2001