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Who gains when workers train? : training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2000

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

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Comparing sample survey measures of English earnings of graduates with administrative data during the Great Recession

Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; Vignoles, Anna - 2015

This paper compares survey based labour earnings data for English graduates, taken from the UK's Labour Force Survey (LFS), with the UK Government administrative sources of official individual level earnings data. This type of administrative data has few sample selection issues, is substantially...

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Immigrant earnings profiles in the presence of human capital investment : measuring cohort and macro effects

Green, David A.; Worswick, Christopher - 2004

Considering immigrant earnings in the context of post-arrival human capital investment implies: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of macro effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native born...

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How English domiciled graduate earnings vary with gender, institution attended, subject and socio-economic background

Britton, Jack; Dearden, Lorraine; Shephard, Neil G.; … - 2016

This paper uses tax and student loan administrative data to measure how the earnings of English graduates around 10 years into the labour market vary with gender, institution attended subject and socioeconomic background. The English system is competitive to enter, with some universities...

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The abolition of the earnings rule for UK pensioners

Disney, Richard; Tanner, Sarah - 2000 - This version: April 2000

The US has legislated to abolish its social security earnings test. A priori it is not possible to predict the effect this will have on work incentives. Using data from the Family Expenditure Survey we show that the abolition of the earnings rule in the UK increased the number of hours worked by...

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Heterogeneity in graduate earnings by socio-economic background

Crawford, Claire; Vignoles, Anna - 2014

Education is often regarded as a route to social mobility. For this to be the case, however, the link between family background and adult outcomes must be broken (or at least reduced) once we take account of an individual's education history. This paper focuses on individuals who have completed...

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