John Forth

Biographic Data

ID5731330
NAMEJohn Forth
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEForth
SIGNATUREFORTH J
AFFILIATIONSNational Institute of Economic and Social Research
ORCID0000-0001-7963-2817
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Productivity dynamics among union locals in the United States

    Open AccessThomas Breda, Alex Bryson et al.ARTICLEEconomic Inquiry2026

    Using panel data on union locals in the United States we examine the dynamics of the union sector, investigating the impact of inter‐union competition on locals' productivity and survival. We find low entry rates, high exit rates and high levels of productivity dispersion in the sector. The entry of new locals is not associated with productivity improvements among incumbents but has a small negative association with locals' survival rates. These …

  • Are Women Doing It for Themselves? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap

    Open AccessNikolaos Theodoropoulos, Νικόλαος Θεοδωρόπουλος et al.ARTICLEOxford Bulletin of Economics and…2022

    Using linked employer‐employee data for Britain, we find a robust association between the share of female managers in the workplace and the size of the gender wage gap. In workplace fixed‐effects estimates, the gap is eradicated when more than 60% of workplace managers are women, a scenario that obtains in around one fifth of all workplaces. The association between the share of female managers and the gender wage gap is more pronounced when workp…

  • Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance

    Open AccessAlex Bryson, John Forth et al.ARTICLEIndustrial Relations A Journal of…2020

    Using a panel of workplaces in Britain, we investigate the implications for businesses of employing older workers. Workplace labor productivity falls where the proportion of older or younger workers rises. These raw associations are attenuated somewhat after controlling for aspects of human capital. In contrast, there is no significant association between age shares and workplace financial performance, suggesting that any reluctance by employers …

  • Does employees’ subjective well-being affect workplace performance

    Open AccessAlex Bryson, John Forth et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2017Cited by: 10References: 46

    This article 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 significant relationship between the average level of job satisfaction at the workplace and workplace performance. The relationship is present in both cross-sectional and panel analyses and is robust to various estimation methods and mod…

  • Comparative Workplace Employment Relations

    Open AccessThomas Amossé, Alex Bryson et al.BOOKComparative Workplace Employment…2016

    This comprehensive study provides a perceptive portrait of workplace employment relations in Britain and France using comparable data from two large-scale surveys: the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) and the French Enquête Relations Professionnelles et Négociations d’Entreprise (REPONSE). These extensive linked employer-employee surveys provide nationally-representative data on private sector employment relations in all but t…

  • Comparative Workplace Employment Relations

    Alex Bryson, John Forth et al.BOOKComparative Workplace Employment…2016

  • Work Organisation and Human Resource Management

    Open AccessP Askenazy, John ForthCHAPTERComparative Workplace Employment…2016

    This chapter focuses on a set of human resource management (HRM) practices that are concerned with the ways in which employees are organised and incentivised at the point of production, taking its lead from the literature which argues that the use of high-involvement work organisation, incentives, and performance targets will aid productivity and workplace performance. The findings suggest that workplaces in France are more likely than those in B…

  • Same or Different? The CEO Labour Market in China's Public Listed Companies

    Open AccessAlex Bryson, John Forth et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2014References: 21

    Using linked employer–employee data for all China's public listed firms over the period 2001–10, we find top executive compensation exhibits many of the traits familiar in the Western literature, although sometimes in a more muted way, and with some clear exceptions. We also find a role for managerial power in executive pay setting which may reflect the recency of the stock market and regulations underpinning corporate governance. Nevertheless, t…

  • Survey errors and survey costs

    Open AccessJohn Forth, Helen Bewley et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society2010References: 2

    A recent article in this journal provided a critique of the design of the Survey of Employees Questionnaire within the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey. The principal criticisms concerned the use of vague response categories, double-barrelled questions, needless ordinal measurements and the use of multiple binary items in place of ordinal or scalar measures. The critique highlighted some areas worthy of attention but we argue that, in o…

  • High‐involvement Management Practices, Trade Union Representation and Workplace Performance in Britain

    Open AccessAlex Bryson, John Forth et al.ARTICLEScottish Journal of Political…2005Cited by: 11References: 8

    Debates about Britain's productivity performance have often drawn attention to the roles played by working practices and employment relations. In the 1980s and 1990s, trade unions were a prime focus; more recently, attention has turned to high‐involvement management (HIM) practices (also referred to as ‘high‐performance work systems’). We combine the two to investigate the relationships between work organisation, trade union representation and wo…