Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census'' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine the impact of workplace practices, information...

This paper seeks to provide new insight into employer-provided training investment and how they are linked to workplace practices, physical capital investments, and educational qualifications of workers. Using a new and unique nationally representing survey of establishments in the US, we go...

By reviewing the current demand literature for fish and meat, it is apparent that several inadequacies arise from the problems of market delineation or aggregation errors. Inappropriate aggregation may lead to biases in price elasticities and associated specification problems with respect to...

This paper tests empirically to what extent the rent in a limited entry and quota managed fishery is capitalized in the value of a vessel license. This is done by comparing the profitability of Norwegian purse seine vessels which received their licenses for free, to the profitability of vessels...

The twofold aim of this article is to model the structure of the Norwegian food farming industry for trout and salmon and to provide estimates for the scale elasticity and substitution possibilities. A translog functional form of the long run cost function is specified and estimated. The...

The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of the cost inefficiency of public regulation of input factors. During the data period used here, individual plants within the Norwegian fish farming industry were regulated in their use of production capacity (pen volume) at different size...

In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in theBritish engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage ofcontaining a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long periodwith varying labour market conditions,...

Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out separately for males and females with individual-level data taken from the...

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that true wage changes have many fewer nominal cuts and more nominal freezes than reported nominal wage changes. The data overwhelmingly rejects a model of flexible wage changes and provides some evidence against a model of perfect downward...

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the author examines the cyclicality of wages within employer-employee matches for the years 1970-91. Recent research on wage cyclicality has suggested that wages are very procyclical (tending to rise and fall with economicupturns and...