Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work …

This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational … matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system …, and show that training is transferable across a wide range of occupations, such as a one-digit occupation group. We …

skills into occupations prevents credible identification of polarization’s effect on wages. I solve the selection …-bias problem by studying the changes in returns to occupation-specific skills instead of the changes in occupational wages using …- (low-) as opposed to middle-skill occupations is associated with a .29 (.70) percent increase in expected wages over time …

entering low-skilled work. The project was originally framed under a Labour Government which placed considerable emphasis on …

with children and the ways in which part-time work and interruptions in paid employment influence the wages of working …

evidence for investments in training and physical capital across the Atlantic, which is roughly in line with this theoretical … wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paid to these workers. I report some empirical …