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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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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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...

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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Youth Unemployment and Active Labor Market Policies in Europe

Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015

average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active labor market programs (ALMP) with … integration into the first labor market or further education. Based on a detailed assessment of the particularities of the youth … labor market situation, we discuss the pros and cons of different ALMP types. We then provide a comprehensive survey of the …

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Active Labor Market Policies

Crépon, Bruno; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016

Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of … individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy …

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Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers

Jacobson, Louis; LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel G. - 2004

Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these losses have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have significantly expanded resources for retraining, much of which takes place in regular community college classes. To analyze...

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The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes

Dyke, Andrew; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; … - 2005

Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds, in part due to research design, data, and methodological limitations of the studies. We aim to substantially improve on past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by...

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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 …

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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. …

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