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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the training (employee or employer); and the skill...

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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …

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