variation in wages across individuals, especially for young women. In addition, our results indicate that approximately one …-fourth of the gender difference in average wages is attributable to the higher work experience levels of men. …

Over the past twenty years real wages have stagnated despite substantial technical progress. This runs contrary to the … widespread belief that technological change increases real wages. This paper presents a theoretical model showing that technical … progress could reduce wages. This hypothesis is then tested using data from the U.S. steel industry. …

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 …

applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined …

account quite well for fluctuations in UK competitiveness, output, wages and the terms of trade, and is used to examine the …

wages and (2) longer first-job durations than apprentices leaving the training firm. These results support theories …