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The returns to occupation-specific human capital - Evidence from mobility after training

Mueller, Barbara; Schweri, Juerg - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

Using a longitudinal dataset based on the PISA 2000 survey, we analyze the effect of inter-firm and occupational mobility on post-training wages in Switzerland to assess the transferability of the human capital acquired in training. We show that OLS provides a lower bound estimate of the wage...

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How far do England’s second-order cities emulate London as human-capital ‘escalators’?

Champion, Tony; Coombes, Mike; Gordon, Ian R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

In the urban resurgence accompanying the growth of the knowledge economy, second-order cities appear to be losing out to the principal city, especially where the latter is much larger and benefits from substantially greater agglomeration economies. The view that any city can make itself...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data

Arvanitis, Spyros - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2008

In this study we investigated the determinants (a) of the propensity of Swiss firms to train apprentices and (b) of the intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition conditions on the product market are possible...

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Training Propensity of Start-ups in Switzerland - A Study Based on Data for the Start-up Cohort 1996-97

Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2008

This study is based on data a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were collected by means of a postal survey among those firms, which still existed by that time. In 2003 and 2006 two further surveys were conducted among the participants of the respective...

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England and Wales: stable fertility and pronounced social status differences

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European … countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility … and quantum of fertility. Breaking with a market-oriented and laissez-faire approach to work and family issues, the last …

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