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Monetary Transfers from Children and the Labour Supply of Elderly Parents: Evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Trong-Ha; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Booth, Alison L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents' need to work. Taking the possible...

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Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Zoega, Gylfi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …

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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...

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