Price Convergence and Market Integration in China (2008)
Fan, Simon C., Ma, Yue, Wei, Xiangdong
Whether China has successfully transformed from a formally centrally-controlled economy to a market economy is an issue of immense interest and considerable debate. The current study complements the...
The implicit wage costs of family friendly work practices (2007)
Heywood, John S., Siebert, W. Stanley, Wei, Xiangdong
This paper posits that the provision of family friendly practices is, on balance, costly to firms and valuable to workers. As a consequence, we anticipate the emergence of a hedonic equilibrium in...
The implicit wage costs of family friendly work practices (2007)
Heywood, John S., Siebert, W. Stanley, Wei, Xiangdong
This paper posits that the provision of family friendly practices is, on balance, costly to firms and valuable to workers. As a consequence, we anticipate the emergence of a hedonic equilibrium in...
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The Implicit Costs and Benefits of Family Friendly Work Practices
John S. Heywood, W.S. Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
This paper posits that the provision of family friendly practices is, on balance, costly to firms and valuable to workers. As a consequence, we anticipate the emergence of a hedonic equilibrium in...
"Soft" Skills, "Hard" Skills, and the Black/White Earnings Gap
C. Simon Fan, Xiangdong Wei, Junsen Zhang
This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more...
Unions and Plant Closings in Britain: New Evidence from the 1990/98 WERS
Addison, John T., Heywood, John S., Wei, Xiangdong
In this paper we exploit the longitudinal element of the 1990 and 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Surveys for Britain to investigate the effect of unionism on establishment closings. Contrary to...
Examining the Determinants of Agency Work: Do Family Friendly Practices Play a Role?
John S. Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
This paper uses establishment data to estimate the determinants of using agency workers. It contends that those employers with less ability to direct effort of core workers are more likely to use...
Worker Participation and Firm Performance: Evidence from Germany and Britain
John Addison, Stanley Siebert, Joachim Wagner, Xiangdong Wei
The Freeman-Lazear works council/worker involvement model is assessed over two distinct industrial relations regimes. In non-union British establishments our measures of employee involvement are...
Compensating wage differentials, Job-related illness,
Determinants of hiring older workers: Evidence from Hong Kong.
John S. Heywood, Lok-Sang Ho, Xiangdong Wei
A 1996 survey of Hong Kong establishments designed to identify hiring and employment patterns by workers' age shows that, as in the United States, many firms employed older workers but did not hire...
Worker sorting and job satisfaction: The case of union and government jobs.
John S. Heywood, W. S. Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
In initial cross-section estimates using data from the 1991-94 British Household Panel Study, the authors find that union members had lower overall job satisfaction than non-union members, and public...
Determinants of hiring older workers: Evidence from Hong Kong.
John S. Heywood, Lok-Sang Ho, Xiangdong Wei
A 1996 survey of Hong Kong establishments designed to identify hiring and employment patterns by workers' age shows that, as in the United States, many firms employed older workers but did not hire...
Worker sorting and job satisfaction: The case of union and government jobs.
John S. Heywood, W. S. Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
In initial cross-section estimates using data from the 1991-94 British Household Panel Study, the authors find that union members had lower overall job satisfaction than non-union members, and public...
High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept
John S. Heywood, W.S. Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family...
Employer size-wage effects: evidence from matched employer-employee survey data in the UK
Clive R. Belfield, Xiangdong Wei
This paper employs a random sample of matched employer-employee data from the UK to test seven possible explanations for the positive relationship between employer size and pay. Individual wage...
Education and Signaling: Evidence from a Highly Competitive Labor Market
This paper directly tests for differences in returns to education between the employed and self-employed in Hong Kong. Using a step-function, we find significantly smaller returns for the...
The Law of One Price: Evidence from the Transitional Economy of China
This paper applies the recently developed econometric methods of panel unit root tests and nonlinear mean reversion to investigate price convergence in China-the largest transitional economy in the...
The implicit wage costs of family friendly work practices
John S. Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
This paper posits that the provision of family friendly practices is, on balance, costly to firms and valuable to workers. As a consequence, we anticipate the emergence of a hedonic equilibrium in...
Teamwork, monitoring and absence
Heywood, John S., Jirjahn, Uwe, Wei, Xiangdong
We present a model showing that firms with interdependent worker productivity (team production) have a higher cost of absence and as a consequence will spend additional resources on monitoring...
New Evidence on Unions and Plant Closings: Britain in the 1990s
John T. Addison, John S. Heywood, Xiangdong Wei
In this paper, we exploit the longitudinal element of the 1990 and 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Surveys for Britain to investigate the effect of unionism on establishment closings. Contrary to...
Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China
Heywood, John S., Siebert, W. Stanley, Wei, Xiangdong
The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China. Legally segregated migrants, floaters, earn significantly less than otherwise...
Competitiveness of the Hong Kong economy
Li, Hongyi, Wei, Xiangdong, Xie, Danyang
Abstract Our assessment of the competitiveness of the Hong Kong economy from various perspectives indicates that the overall competitiveness of Hong Kong economy has been improving during the past...