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Tenure-based Wage Setting
Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999
We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance … and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262277
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290001
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The inter-related dynamics of dual job holding, human capital and occupational choice
Panos, Georgios A.; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; … - 2009
The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271274
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Tenure, wage profiles and monitoring
Sessions, John G.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008
We investigate the relationship between the slope of the wage-tenure profile and the level of monitoring across two … a decline in the slope of the wage-tenure profile. Our empirical analysis provides strong support for this prediction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276684
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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262722
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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Work-Related Training and the New National Minimum Wage in Britain
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262627
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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1999
Monitor Survey we compare the pattern of turnover with a Western economy, Britain. We show tenure profiles are higher and … are consistent with a framework where the value of seniority in jobs begun under the old order may be small and the value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262310
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Real wage cyclicality in Germany and the UK: new results using panel data
Peng, Fei; Siebert, William Stanley - 2007
This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2002 and the British Household Panel Survey 1991-2004. We distinguish between job stayers (remaining in the same job), and within- and between-company job movers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276669
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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England
MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael A. - 2000
In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262375