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The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, Rene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

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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All-Star or benchwarmer? relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...

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Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: non-cognitive skills, ability and education

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...

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The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include educational attainment, employment, earnings and...

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Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?

Mark, Bryan; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion 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...

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The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood in Britain

Chevalier, Arnaud; Viitanen, Tarja K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …

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On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...

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The employment effects of the October 2003 increase in the national minimum wage

Dickens, Richard; Draca, Mirko - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

There is a growing body of research that measures employment effects of the minimum wage by using longitudinal data on individuals to compare job loss of workers affected by a minimum wage increase with those who are not directly affected. This sort of study requires good quality wage data in...

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Collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition

Magda, Iga; Marsden, David; Moriconi, Simone - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They … protect low skilled wages; whereas in late transition ones, firm level agreements increase medium and especially high skilled … wages. Some cross country differences emerge in the structure of the wage premium as a result of country specific features …

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The impact of immigration on the local labor market outcomes of blue collar workers: panel data evidence

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much … endogenous changes in occupation and location attenuate the impact of immigration on natives’ wages. We also find much larger …

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