This paper looks at the effect of quitting on the number of workers trained under conditions of uncertainty about future productivity when workers have both firm-specific and industry- specific skills. A new effect is found which works in the opposite direction of the undertraining result of...

This paper uses the first four waves (1991-4) of the British Household Panel Survey to chart patterns of labour market transition for men and women. We examine movements into and out of part-time employment, full-time employment, unemployment and out of the labour force. In particular, we...

This paper uses the retrospective work history data from the British Household Panel Survey to examine patterns of job mobility and job tenure for men and women over the twentieth century. British men and women hold an average of five jobs over their lifetimes, and half of all lifetime job...

Using new data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) 1991--1995, we document patterns of career mobility and investigate various factors affecting the probabilities of male and female workers' promotions, quits and layoffs. We find that internal promotions account for almost two-fifths...

It is often argued that statutory firing costs contribute to the high level of European unemployment. This paper aims to shed light on this debate by examining the employment implications of firing costs in (i) a perfectly competitive labour market with exogenously given wages, and (ii) a model...

This paper estimates models of training based on count data, in which the dependent variable takes only non-negative integer values corresponding to the number of work-related training courses occurring in the interval 1981 to 1991. The data set is the National Child Development Study. The raw...

The paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting feature of this model is that the contract curve is vertical. Some of the predictions of the model are confronted with the available British data on non- statutory firing costs,...

The paper investigates the training, cost sharing and welfare implications of a number of contractual arrangements in a skilled labour market in which training is characterised by both specific and transferable elements. These contractual arrangements include legally binding long-term contracts;...

This paper uses panel and retrospective life history data from an important new data source - the British Household Panel Survey - to establish some stylised facts about the unemployment experiences of men. In particular, we investigate the proportion of the sample who suffer from repeated...

Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of this 1958 birth cohort of young men and women - the years spanning the ages...