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The Covariance Structure of Earnings and the On the Job Training Hypothesis

Hause, John C. - 1973

The fine structure of earnings is defined by a theoretically meaningful decomposition of the covariance matrix of earnings (or log earnings) time series. A three-element variance components model is proposed for analyzing earnings of young workers. These components are interpreted as the effects...

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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Chatterji, Pinka - 2006

Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …

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Training, Wage Growth and Job Performance : Evidence From a Company Database

Bartel, Ann P. - 1992

This paper studies the relationships between on-the-job training, wages and job performance by using the personnel …

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Skill Differentials in Canada in an Era of Rising Labor Market Inequality

Freeman, Richard B. - 1991

This paper examines educational earnings differentials in Canada in the 1980s and compares changes in differentials to those in the United States. Our major finding is that the college/high school differential increased much less in Canada than in the United States. We also find that within...

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Job Training : Costs, Returns, and Wage Profiles

Mincer, Jacob - 1989

Using information on time costs of training and gains in wages attributable to training I computed rates of return on …. The "direct' calculation uses information on time spent in training and on wages. For 1976 so calculated costs amounted to …

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Private Sector Training and its Impact on the Earnings of Young Workers

Lynch, Lisa M. - 1989

determine the probability of receiving training and its effect on wages and wage growth of young workers. More specifically …

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Job Training, Wage Growth, and Labor Turnover

Mincer, Jacob - 1988

training on turnover and positive effects on wage growth in the firm and over longer periods (1968 to 1983). Wages of trainees … positive correlation between general and firm-specific components of training. So is the apparent paradox that frequent movers …' wages grow less in the long run than those of less frequent movers (stayers), despite wage gains in moving. Mobility wage …

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Wages, Employment, Training and Job Attachment in Low Wage Labor Marketsfor Women

Gustman, Alan L. - 1986

This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...

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Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs

Ashenfelter, Orley - 1984

In this paper we set out some methods that utilize the longitudinal structure of earnings of trainees and a comparison group to estimate the effectiveness of training for the 1976 cohort of CETA trainees. By fitting a components-of-variance model of earnings to the control group, and posing a...

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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?

Krueger, Dirk - 2003

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to obtain, but enables workers to operate new technologies...

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