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It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. But there are … many reasons why wages and productivity may diverge. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of work … training, productivity and wages. Using a variety of econometric estimation techniques (including system GMM) we find that …
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This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London between 1600 and 1749, we find little evidence that networks strongly shaped...
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century? After years of inadequate investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation, there are longstanding structural …
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The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...
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This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...
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much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …
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have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average … have experienced greater downward pressure on wages and greater competition for jobs than others, but these effects still …
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still not, on average, materialised. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on …
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Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work …
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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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