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Training, Minimum Wages and the Earnings Distribution
Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
In this paper we highlight the relevance of work-related training to the minimum wage debate. We initially situate … are less likely than workers towards the top of the hourly wage distribution to receive work-related training. We then … national minimum wage in Britain had a small but statistically significant positive effect on subsequent training incidence for …
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Men at Work in a Land Down-under
Booth, Alison; Katic, Pamela - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...
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