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Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2008

The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in … negative on school returns. Better school quality has also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for … education. Our evidence suggests that better school quality, measured by a lower pupil-teacher ratio, is a technical substitute …

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Are occupations paid what they are worth? An econometric study of occupational wage inequality and productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...

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Capital Accumulation and Growth : A New Look at the Empirical Evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio; Leblebicioglu, Asli; Bond, Steve - 2004

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker, not only temporarily, but also in the steady state. These results are found using pooled annual data for a large panel of countries, using pooled data for non-overlapping...

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Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs

Vartiainen, Juhana; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2004

This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different complexity using panel data on Finnish metalworkers. These data provide a measure for the complexity of the workers' tasks that can be used to construct a complexity ladder of jobs. We study whether women...

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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance : Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2004

This paper uses a combination of workplace and matched-employee workplace data from the British 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions and firm-provided training (incidence, intensity/coverage, and duration) on establishment performance. The performance effects...

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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2003

Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...

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Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...

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Empirical Findings on the Swiss Migration Experience

Straubhaar, Thomas; Golder, Stefan M. - 1999

Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the last 50 years after World War II, which has led Switzerland to have among the highest share of foreigners in population among all OECD countries. This paper analyses the migration experience of Switzerland. The analysis...

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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...

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