Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring, 2002 by Subject "Britain"

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    • Foreign ownership and wages in British establishments 

      Velde, Dirk Willem te (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper uses the 1990-1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) panel data set to show that foreign establishments in Britain pay 13 per cent higher wages than domestic establishments. However, the differential ...

    • The impact of structural and contractual arrangements on a vertically separated railway 

      Affuso, Luisa; Newbery, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      The unbundling of railways in Britain has been heavily criticised as undermining the passenger rail system. Economic theory suggests that structural separation and short-lived contracts hinder incentives to invest in ...