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Training and Unions
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
at age 16 in the late 1970s. The impact of the apprenticeship on employment duration and early labour market mobility is … starting an apprenticeship indicate that apprenticeships were found in a core of industries, in large firms, and were … associated with higher-ability workers. There were no significant differences between apprenticeship provision in the public and …
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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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