This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …

applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined … separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …

European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Undertaking training … activities is associated with 6.3% higher wages. This premium is sizeable and is similar to that of attaining an upper or post … are highest in Austria, Germany, Greece, and Italy and are about half that in France and Spain. No premium is found for …

impact on the individuals' wages one year after graduation. However, there appears to be a partial catchup towards luckier …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …

pooling. Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover depresses wages at the regional and the firm level, indicating …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …