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Education, matching and the allocative value of romance

Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn G. - 2005

decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability … educational investments and labor force participation based on matching regimes. …

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Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors investigate the impact of union coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are...

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

In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two ?treatment groups? for estimating the impact of the new...

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Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Zoega, Gylfi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two ‘treatment groups’ for estimating the impact of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763780

Salience, risky choices and gender

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2012

Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...

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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...

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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women

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

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …. We initially present descriptive information about training: we find that most work-related training is viewed by its …

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