coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are more likely to receive training and also receive more days of training. In … addition, union-covered men experience greater returns to training, and coveredtrained workers face a higher wage growth. While …

Becker?s theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers … because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor … markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of affected workers because they induce firms to train their unskilled …

In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the … impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two …-in-differences techniques for the period 1998 to 2000, we find no evidence that the introduction of the minimum wage reduced the training of …

market has become as volatile as the US one. -- search ; matching ; training ; firing costs ; productivity differentials …

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are more likely to receive training and also receive more days of training. In … addition, union-covered men experience greater returns to training, and coveredtrained workers face a higher wage growth. While …