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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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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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