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The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, Rene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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The effect of public sector employment on local labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector employment. However, public sector employment does affect...

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The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood in Britain

Chevalier, Arnaud; Viitanen, Tarja K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …

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The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …

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A picture of job insecurity facing British men

Nickell, Stephen; Jones, Tracy; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

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Wage equations, wage curves and all that

Bell, Brian; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

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On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...

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The unemployment volatility puzzle: is wage stickiness the answer?

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

wages in new matches. I summarize microeconometric evidence on wages in new matches and show that the key model elasticities … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …

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The incidence of an earned income tax credit: evaluating the impact on wages in the UK

Azmat, Ghazala Yasmeen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Tax credits have been a popular way to alleviate in-work poverty. The assumption is typically that the incidence is on the claimant workers. However, economic theory suggests no particular reason to believe that this should be the case. This paper investigates the incidence of the Working...

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The relative economic importance of academic, psychological and behavioural attributes developed on childhood

Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...

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