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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...

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Changing returns to education during a boom? The case of Ireland

McGuinness, Seamus; McGinnity, Frances; O'Connell, Philip - 2008

Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger' years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality? This...

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Default options and training participation

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2013

This paper analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses which...

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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

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On the Returns to Training in Portugal

Budría, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2004

This paper investigates the earnings effects of training in the Portuguese labour market. We use the Portuguese Labour Force Survey to classify training according to multiple criteria, including providing institution, purpose, duration, and content of the training activity. First, we establish...

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009

This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...

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A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980?s

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980?s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...

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The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence

Lucifora, Claudio; Comi, Simona; Brunello, Giorgio - 2000

Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a … larger share of the population involved in human capital investment faces high marginal costs in Italy compared to the …

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The returns to education in Italy: A new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 1999

Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a larger … share of the population involved in human capital investment faces high marginal costs in Italy compared to the European …

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