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Employer Learning and Schooling-Related Statistical Discrimination in Britain
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2003
This paper develops and tests a new model of asymmetric information in the labour market involving employer learning. In the model, I provide theoretical conditions for the identification – based on the experience and tenure profiles of estimated returns to ability and education – of...
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Promotion signals, age and education
Bognanno, Michael L.; Melero, Eduardo - 2012
worker's ability. The employing firm must then increase wages to prevent the worker from being bid away. Less educated …
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The Value of Skills
Green, Francis - 1998
Many commentators have argued that "key skills" are becoming more important in modern workplaces. This paper draws on a survey that uses a methodology based on job analysis to measure skills at work, and estimates their implicit prices using a hedonic wage equation. The main new findings are...
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The role of education in technology use and adoption: Evidence from the Canadian workplace and employee survey
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - 2012
Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the...
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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The growth and valuation of generic skills
Dickerson, Andy; Green, Francis - 2002
Using a method for measuring job skills derived from survey data on detailed work activities, we show that between 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290682
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Are computer skills the new basic skills? : The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2003
entering the labour market. Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we argue that neither the … skills are valuable. We compare computer skills with writing and math skills and test whether wages vary with computer skills … has no substantial impact on wages. These estimates suggest that writing and math can be regarded as basic skills, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277177
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Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder; Sloane, Peter J. - 2002
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment, the determinants of any mismatch and the consequences for earnings and other labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262245
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Investment abroad and adjustment at home: Evidence from UK multinational firms
Simpson, Helen - 2007
I use within-firm, plant-level data combined with geographic information on firms’ overseas operations to examine how investment in low-wage economies affects firms’ home-country operations. To remain close to theory I focus on changes in firms’ organisational and industrial structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293063
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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to … small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …
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