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Firm Provision of General Training and Specific Human Capital Acquisition
Casas-Arce, Pablo - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004
The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of their workers, but without explaining which firms train which workers. This paper develops a theory that both explains the willingness of firms to pay for general training, and...
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The effect of schooling on worker productivity: Evidence from a South African industry panel
Teal, Francis; Burger, Rulof P. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
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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Multi-tasking and the Returns to Experience
Chaudhury, Parama - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
In this paper, I study how an increase in the use of new work practices that involve multi-tasking has affected the returns to experience.  If each task in a job has a concave learning curve, then increasing the number of tasks may increase the returns to experience.  Using the Panel Study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764094
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Do Wages reflect Productivity?
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005
productivity profiles. However, wages are steeper in large and unionized firms. This suggests that human capital theory holds for …
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Directed technical change, the elasticity of substitution and wage inequality in developing countries
Behar, Alberto - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009
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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Vocational Training and the Poaching Externality : Evidence for France.
Hocquet, L - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997
wages, while paying special attention to the mobility after training. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776255
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Wages and Reciprocity in the Workplace
Barr, Abigail; Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004
reciprocity and individual wages. However, the direction of causality is unclear. Various aspects of the distribution of the … reciprocity have a positive effect on wages, while the spread in the distribution (standard deviation) has a strong significant …
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Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in Great Britain and the United States.
Blanchflower, D-G - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997
Estimates are produced for differences between the ceteris paribus earnings of union and non-union workers in the UK and the US over time.
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Does Housework Lower Wages and Why? Evidence for Britain
Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Bryan, Mark L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
lesser-studied and more direct effect of household activities on wages. In a broad economic sense, household activities … require effort, which decreases labour market productivity and thus wages. This paper first documents the relationship between … housework and wages in Britain and applies a variety of econometric techniques to pin down the effect of housework on wages. It …
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Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity?.
Knight, J.; Song, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
Increasing wage inequality is a feature of many economies in recent years, and the same is true of China. Whereas in most countries it is normally interpreted as a move from one market equilibrium to another, in China it is more likely to reflect a move away from extreme disequilibirum. Two...
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