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Is unemployment really scarring? : Effects of unemployment experiences on wages

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2000

. The study could not find any significant effects of unemployment duration on subsequent wages in addition to the incidence …This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the … of sample selection and unobserved heterogeneity are also addressed in the analyses. This study finds that, unemployment …

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Overtime work, overtime compensation and the distribution of economic well-being : evidence for West Germany and Great Britain

Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the monthly labour earnings...

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The impact of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England

MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael - 2000

In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...

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Labor and financial market interactions : the case of labor income risk and car insurance in the UK 1969 - 95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …

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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999

This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...

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Paid and unpaid overtime working in Germany and the UK

Bell, David N. F. (contributor) - 2000

Significant numbers of employees work more hours in the workplace than their contract stipulates. Such overtime work can either be paid or unpaid. This research considers overtime working in Germany and the UK and shows that the quantitative significance of both paid and unpaid overtime is...

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The rate of return to private schooling

Wright, Robert E. - 1999

This paper examines the relationship between "school qualityʺ and earnings in the United Kingdom. The specific focus is on evaluating the effect that private schooling has on hourly wage rates. It is well known that private (i.e. fee-paying) schools compared to state schools score higher on...

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Perceived income, promotion and incentive effects

Epstein, Gil S.; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2002

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Who pays for general training? : New evidence for British men and women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

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Overeducation and ethnic minorities in Britain

Battu, Harminder - 2002

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