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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - 2004
We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...
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Earnings tenure profiles: tests of agency and human capital theories using individual performance data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2007
By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268237
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Analysis of pay inequality and its impacts on growth and performance in the Korean manufacturing industry
Kim, Yunhee; Lee, Jeong-dong; Heshmati, Almas - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality … relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268960
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Employee training and wage dispersion: white and blue collar workers in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269502
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Earnings progression, human capital and incentives: Theory and evidence
Frederiksen, Anders - 2010
The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269862
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The microeconometric estimation of treatment effects: an overview
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - 2005
The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD … focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267682
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … find that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years … for the unemployed tend to be most effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269577
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search assistance or job creation schemes). What has not been examined yet … restrictions in areas with relatively bad labor market conditions generally increase entries into start-up programs as job offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319509
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … find that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years … for the unemployed tend to be most effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592864
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search assistance or job creation schemes). What has not been examined yet … restrictions in areas with relatively bad labor market conditions generally increase entries into start-up programs as job offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775587