. However, whilst the effect of wages is found to be statistically significant, the predicted impact of an increase in nurses …

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … an increase in hourly wages of about 0.3%. We also show evidence using individual level datasets that is suggestive of …

empirical determinants of the reservation wage - in particular the inßuence of previous wages - and consider what this implies … for the evolution of the natural rate of unemployment. We Þnd that previous wages have a signiÞcant but relatively small … effect on reservation wages (an elasticity between 0.15 and 0.47). We also Þnd considerable differences across genders with …

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …