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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 age of the employee; and if the training is with the current employer or …
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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 levels of the recipient (white or blue collar). Using decomposition analysis, we …
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We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of … collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes … of apprenticeship training by changing training procedures towards more training at the work place and thus by decreasing …
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. "Training … contractual variation from a leading trucking firm, we show that two training contracts significantly reduced post-training … firm profits from training and reduced worker welfare relative to no contract …
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This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment...
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make large initial investments in worker training …
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This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering the period 1995-2002. Findings show the existence of large and persistent wage differentials among workers with the same observed...
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model in which firms and workers make relationship-specific...
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