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, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
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, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442576
This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of non-overlapping administrative units, thus avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which people in different occupations locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise Ellison-Glaeser coagglomeration indices for U.S. occupations and use these measures to investigate the factors influencing the...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which people in different occupations locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise Ellison-Glaeser coagglomeration indices for U.S. occupations and use these measures to investigate the factors influencing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736210
Community Household Panel to ask whether local density affects employer-provided training. We find that training is less … of employer-provided training by 0.07, more than 20 percent of the average incidence of training in the UK during the …
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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 training: we find that most work-related training is viewed by its …
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We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for … British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill … levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the age of the employee; and if the training is with the current employer or …
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We consider the links between training, the quality of labour and establishment performance, using a proxy for … training, leading to potential variation in the optimal provision of education and training. Between 1998 and 2004, 16% of …, among establishments that do train, the survival prospects are not altered by the duration of training per employee. We …
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The paper investigates the impact of different types of training on the mobility expectations of workers, using two new … transferability of training, improved information on the sources of sponsorship, and judgements about the aims and outcomes of … training. We find that most training episodes produce some transferable skills and that most transferable training is paid for …
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