John Forth

John’s research focuses on the management and organisation of work and its implications for wages, employee well-being and productivity.

Research Interests

His research has included a substantial role in the design and analysis of the long-running and internationally-renowned series of Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS).

He is currently involved in ADR-funded Wage and Employment Dynamics project, linking data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) to a number of administrative data resources for public use.

Additional Information

Selected publications

Forth, J. and Theodoropoulos, N. (2022). “Earnings Discrimination in the Workplace.” Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (pp. 1–24). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-
319-57365-6.

Theodoropoulos, N., Forth, J. and Bryson, A. (2022). “Are Women Doing It for Themselves? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap*.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84(6), pp. 1329–
1355. doi:10.1111/obes.12509.

Forth, J., Theodoropoulos, N. and Bryson, A. (2022). “The role of the workplace in ethnic wagedifferentials.” British Journal of Industrial Relations. doi:10.1111/bjir.12696.

Forth, J. and Rincon-Aznar, A. (2021). “Where should low-wage sectors feature in an industrial strategy?” In Berry, C. (Ed.), The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Agenda
Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78821-339-4.

Stokes L, Forth J and others (2022) “Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE”, Wage and Employment Dynamics Methodology Paper.

Stokes L, Forth J and others (2022) “Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE”, Wage and Employment Dynamics Methodology Paper.

Forth J, Stokes L and others (2022) “Longitudinal Attrition in ASHE”, Wage and Employment Dynamics Methodology Paper.

Forth J, Stokes L and others (2022) “ASHE-Census 2011 Data Linkage”, Wage and Employment Dynamics Methodology Paper.

Bryson A and Forth J (2022) “Worker representation”, forthcoming in T Eriksson (ed) Handbook of Labor Studies, Edward Elgar.

Forth J, Rincon-Aznar A and Innes D (2021) “Where should low-wage sectors feature in an industrial strategy?”, Chapter 16 in in C Berry (ed) The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Agenda Publishing.

Bryson, A., Forth, J., Gray, H. and Stokes, L. (2020) “Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?” Industrial Relations, 59, 4: 532–562.

Willman P, Bryson A and Forth J (2019) “UK trades unions and the problems of collective action”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 58, 2: 447-470.

Bryson A and Forth J (2019) “Management practices and SME performance”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 66, 4: 527-558.

Bryson A and Forth J (2019) “State substitution of the trade union good: the case of paid holiday entitlements”, Journal of Employee Participation and Employee Ownership (special issue on workplace representation), 2, 1: 5-23.

Bryson A, Forth J and Stokes L (2018) “The performance pay premium and wage dispersion in Britain”, Manchester School. 86, 2: 139-154.

Bryson A, Forth J and Stokes L (2017) “How Much Performance Pay is there in the Public Sector and What Are Its Effects?”, Human Resource Management Journal. 27, 4: 581-597.

Stokes L, Bryson A, Forth J and Weale M (2017) “Who fared better? The fortunes of performance pay and fixed pay workers through recession”, British Journal of Industrial Relations. 55, 4: 778-801.

Bryson A, Forth J and Stokes L (2017) “Employees’ subjective wellbeing and workplace performance”, Human Relations. 70, 8: 1017-1037.

Forth J, Bryson A and George A (2017) “Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation”, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 23, 4: 415-433.