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CEP discussion paper
The wage of temporary agency workers

Using French administrative data, we estimate the wage gap distribution between in-house and temporary agency workers working in the same establishment and the same occupation. The average wage gap is about 3%, but the g...Read more...

Antonin Bergeaud, Pierre Cahuc, Clement Malgouyres, Sara Signorelli and Thomas Zuber

2 July 2024

CEP discussion paper
Is happiness a predictor of election results?

Is it in politicians? interest to focus policy on subjective well-being (SWB)? Many governments and international organisations have recently begun to measure progress at least partly in terms of the population?s SWB or ...Read more...

George Ward

13 April 2015

CEP discussion paper
Eliciting taxpayer preferences increases tax compliance

Two experiments show that eliciting taxpayer preferences on government spending?providing taxpayer agency--increases tax compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for ...Read more...

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Cait Lamberton and Michael I. Norton

29 May 2014

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
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

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper
Temporary Agency Workers and Workplace Performance in the Private Sector

Using nationally representative workplace data we identify the correlates of temporary agency working (TAW) in the private sector in Britain and its association with workplace labour productivity and financial performanc...Read more...

Alex Bryson

May 2007

CEP discussion paper
Term Limits and Electoral Accountability

Periodic elections are the main instrument through which voters can hold politicians accountable. From this perspective term limits, which restrict voters? ability to reward politicians with re-election, appear counterpr...Read more...

Michael Smart and Daniel M. Sturm

December 2006