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workers when looking at men and (2) there is a spill-over effect onto the wage of both groups for both men and women. …
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labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …
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This paper explores the links between school, family and area background influences during adolescence and later adult economic outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period 1979 to 1996, drawn from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. For a sample of...
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expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …
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This paper investigates the effect of minimum wages on employment using a panel of US state-based data. We estimate a … significant effects of minimum wages on youth employment. Unlike many other studies we find also significant effects on aggregate …
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among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with … the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with some compression in the lower half of the wage distribution for women …
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This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
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