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CentrePiece article
Happier workers, higher profits

Alex Bryson and colleagues find that UK employees' job satisfaction is positively associated with workplace financial performance....Read more...

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

30 July 2015

CEP discussion paper
Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance?

This paper uses linked employer-employee data to investigate the relationship between employees? subjective well-being and workplace performance in Britain. The analyses show a clear, positive and statistically-significa...Read more...

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

15 July 2015

CEP occasional paper
The UK's productivity puzzle

The 2008 Great Recession was notable in the UK for three things: the enormity of the output shock; the muted unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the dec...Read more...

Alex Bryson and John Forth

29 May 2015

CEP discussion paper
Are firms paying more for performance?

Despite its potential to raise productivity, performance-related-pay (PRP) is not widespread in market-oriented economies. Furthermore, despite secular changes conducive to its take-up, there is mixed evidence as to whet...Read more...

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

4 June 2014

CEP discussion paper
CEO Incentive Contracts in China: Why Does City Location Matter?

CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We show that city and provincial policy experiments help explain this variance. We examine the role of two ...Read more...

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

15 February 2013

CEP occasional paper
What do we know about China's CEO's? Evidence from across the whole economy

All that we know about the CEO labour market in China comes from studies of public listed companies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper is the first to examine the operation of the CEO labour market across all...Read more...

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

27 September 2012

CEP discussion paper
The CEO Labour Market in China's Public Listed Companies

Using panel data for all of China?s public listed firms over the period 2001-2010 we examine how firms have recruited and rewarded their executives over a decade of huge growth and turbulence. CEO pay is sensitive to fir...Read more...

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

7 June 2012

CEP discussion paper
CEO Bonding: Who Posts Performance Bonds and Why?

Despite their theoretical value in tackling principal-agent problems at low cost to firms there is almost no empirical literature on the prevalence and correlates of performance bonds posted by corporate executives. Usin...Read more...

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

21 March 2012

CEP discussion paper
The Evolution of the Modern Worker: Attitudes to Work

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 ...Read more...

Alex Bryson and John Forth

December 2010

CEP discussion paper
Trade Union Membership and Influence 1999-2009

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 an...Read more...

Alex Bryson and John Forth

September 2010

CEP discussion paper
Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace perf...Read more...

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Patrice Laroche

April 2009

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper
Are There Day of the Week Productivity Effects?

Despite much debate about the productivity effects of flexible working and the regulation of working hours little attention is paid to temporal variance in productivity. This paper explains why one might expect to see pr...Read more...

Alex Bryson and John Forth

July 2007

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper
The Theory and Practice of Pay Setting

This review focuses on pay variance across workers, employers and across time and illustrates how theories of pay determination can shed light on this variance. We discuss the limitations of the orthodox economic approac...Read more...

Alex Bryson and John Forth

December 2006