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In recent years, British labour markets have been characterised by a decline of institutional regulation of entry routes into many occupations and internal labour markets. This paper examines this change by comparing occupational labour markets for selected occupations in which institutional...
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. In the financial sector, these career streams are linked to training and geographical mobility within the organization … with those with craft skills. For the former, company-specific training develops with internal movement. For the latter …, training is by apprenticeship leading to externally transferable skills. The two sub-systems are interrelated as it is often …
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In the empirical literature on work experience, job tenure, training and earnings, only one previous study has made a … has made the distinction with respect to training. Yet it is reasonable to hypothesize that the distinction is important … independent effect. Similarly it is found that the distinction between training for current and previous occupations gives better …
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This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London between 1600 and 1749, we find little evidence that networks strongly shaped...
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Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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intensive care unit team leaders and have implications for the development of team leadership training and assessment tools. …
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complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …
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allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …
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finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …
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. Disaggregation by gender is necessary. Endogeneity of participation levels with respect to unemployment is treated in two ways, by … unemployment cannot be rejected. …
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