, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in … IT-courses. We find a significant relationship between training and wages, the coefficient is about 0.05. We find no … significant effect of training on the inequality of wages within firms. …

. The study focuses on evaluating the impact of the contracting-out of these services on the wages and conditions of … savings for government, these resulted partly from a reduction in wages and benefits of former blue collar staff, despite the … best efforts of the Western Australian government to protect staff wages and benefits. The research makes an important …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …