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Schooling is typically found to be highly correlated with individual earnings in African countries.  However, African firm or sector level studies have failed to identify a similarly strong effect for average worker schooling levels on productivity.  This has been interpreted as evidence that...
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Commentators claim that a shortage of skills in South Africa is constraining output and that a rise in skill supply would benefit less skilled occupations. This assumes or implies skilled and unskilled labour are complements. Hicks Elasticities of Complementarity and elasticities of factor price...
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of employer provided and funded training. Using French data, we then estimate the impact of this kind of training on … wages, while paying special attention to the mobility after training. …
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An industry in decline provides an appropriate setting for the theory that mergers and acquisitions destroy implicit contracts and allow for the shedding of excess labour. We test this theory using provincial data from the South African gold mining industry, which has been in decline over the...
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All empirical models of earnings processes in the literature assume a good deal of homogeneity. In contrast to this we model earnings processes allowing for lots of heterogeneity between agents. We also introduce an extension to the linear ARMA model that allows that the initial convergence to...
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training, which yields skills used primarily in the informal sector.  In this paper we use a 2006 urban based household survey … with detailed questions on the background, training and earnings of workers in both wage and self-employment to ask whether … apprenticeship pays off.  We show that apprenticeship is by far the most important institution providing training and is undertaken …
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The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of … willingness of firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provision empirically observed. It is … assumptions, when training and specific human capital are complements, the firm would pay for the former in order to induce the …
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We develop a model of endogenous skill-biased technical change in developing countries.  The model reconciles wildly dispersed existing estimates of the elasticity of substitution between more and less educated workers.  It also produces an estimating equation for the elasticity, which allow...
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A search for key sectors in the UK economy is undertaken, in terms of those generating labour cost saving and product improvements, the effect from which spill over into the remainder of the economy.
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Productivity advances drive long-run economic growth, and a crucial factor is labour productivity improvements.  The productivity of labour in China was marginally relevant in the pre-1978 period, but the picture has changed dramatically in the reform period due to numerous labour market...
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