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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later …
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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
Becker's theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016812
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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship
Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - Centre for Economic Performance, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016986
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The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence
Faggio, Giulia; Salvanes, Kjell; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151033
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The Early Career Gender Wage Gap
Napari, Sami - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
most of the life-time increase in the gender wage gap. This paper focuses on the early career gender wage differences among … average early career gender wage gap. In all gender differences in background characteristics explain about 27 percent of the … average early career wage differences between male and female university graduates. The most important single factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151067
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Why Are Migrants Paid More?
Bryson, Alex; Rossi, Giambattista; Simmons, Rob - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
status of migrant workers. This superstar effect is also apparent in migrant effects on firm performance. But the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535361
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Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by increases in postgraduate education. We document increases in the number of workers with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293677
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Educational Returns, Ability Composition and Cohort Effects: Theory and Evidence for Cohorts of Early-Career UK Graduates
Ireland, Norman; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
An increase over time in the proportion of young people obtaining a degree is likely to impact on the relative ability compositions (i) of graduates and non-graduates and (ii) across graduates with different classes of degree award. In a signalling framework, we examine the implications of this...
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Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents
Boehm, Michael J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage distribution but not in the middle - the intensely debated middle class squeeze. At the same time there was a substantial decline of employment in middle-skill production and clerical...
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A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class - a coarse measure … of student performance used in the UK - causally affects graduates' industry and hence expected wages. To control for …
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