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Information and Communication Technologiesand Skill Upgrading:The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likelyto face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we thenassess the relative...
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages:Firm Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact onproductivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer(2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors andtraining is applied. The...
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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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