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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763636
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703720
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822304
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566567