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Employee training, wage dispersion and equality in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe (contributor); … - 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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Overskilling dynamics and education pathways

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; Fok, Yin King - 2009

This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...

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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2014

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...

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Search and offshoring in the presence of "animal spirits"

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for...

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How destructive is creative destruction? : The costs of worker displacement

Huttunen, Kristiina (contributor); Møen, Jarle (contributor) - 2006

We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...

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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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Employee training and wage dispersion : white and blue collar workers in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2010

We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the...

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises : evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the … the qualification of the workforce. Furthermore, it demonstrates that detailed information on the qualification of the … workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...

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The rise of domestic outsourcing and the evolution of the German wage structure

Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015

The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring employees directly. We investigate the impact of this transformation on the wage structure by...

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