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Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives...

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Apprenticeships and Job Tenure: A Competing Risks Model with Time-varying Covariates

Booth, Alison L; Satchell, Stephen E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The paper examines the extent of apprenticeships in the first job for a cohort of young men entering the labour market at age 16 in the late 1970s. The impact of the apprenticeship on employment duration and early labour market mobility is estimated. The data set used is the National Child...

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Who Gets Over the Training Hurdle? A Study of the Training Experiences of Young Men and Women in Britain

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of the 1958 birth cohort of young men and women – the years spanning the...

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Productivity Spillovers Through Labor Mobility

Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Moen, Espen R; Preugschat, Edgar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show that if innovation firms can commit to long … contracts, there is too little innovation and too much imitation in equilibrium. Our model is tractable and allows us to analyze … welfare effects of various policies in the limited commitment case. We find that subsidizing innovation and taxing imitation …

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