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Who gains when workers train? Training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

Reenen, John Van - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2000

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity …

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Active labour market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard van den - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skilltraining programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and...

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The impact of training on productivity and wages: evidence from British panel data

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Reenen, John Van - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 …-1996 and a variety of estimation techniques we find that work-related training is associated with significantly higher …

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Wages, experience and seniority

Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2001

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth. We identify the contribution to such growth of general, sector specific and firm specific human capital. Our results are interpretable within the context of a model where the returns to human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may...

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Livestock asset transfers with and without training: evidence from Rwanda

Argent, Jonathan; Augsburg, Britta; Rasul, Imran - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2013

programe results in some beneficiaries receiving complementary training with the cow transfer, and other households not … receiving such training with their cow. We exploit these constraints to estimate the additional impact of receiving … complementary training with the cow transfer, on household's economic outcomes up to six years after having receieved the livestock …

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