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Who gains when workers train? : training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2000

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

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Comparing sample survey measures of English earnings of graduates with administrative data during the Great Recession

Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; Vignoles, Anna - 2015

This paper compares survey based labour earnings data for English graduates, taken from the UK's Labour Force Survey (LFS), with the UK Government administrative sources of official individual level earnings data. This type of administrative data has few sample selection issues, is substantially...

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How English domiciled graduate earnings vary with gender, institution attended, subject and socio-economic background

Britton, Jack; Dearden, Lorraine; Shephard, Neil G.; … - 2016

This paper uses tax and student loan administrative data to measure how the earnings of English graduates around 10 years into the labour market vary with gender, institution attended subject and socioeconomic background. The English system is competitive to enter, with some universities...

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The abolition of the earnings rule for UK pensioners

Disney, Richard; Tanner, Sarah - 2000 - This version: April 2000

The US has legislated to abolish its social security earnings test. A priori it is not possible to predict the effect this will have on work incentives. Using data from the Family Expenditure Survey we show that the abolition of the earnings rule in the UK increased the number of hours worked by...

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Getting the unemployed back to work : the role of targeted wage subsidies

Bell, Brian; Blundell, Richard W.; Van Reenen, John - 1999

This paper examines alternative approaches to wage subsidy programmes. It does this in the context of a recent active labour market reform for the young unemployed in Britain. This "New Deal" reform and the characteristics of the target group are examined in detail. We discuss theoretical...

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Heterogeneity in graduate earnings by socio-economic background

Crawford, Claire; Vignoles, Anna - 2014

Education is often regarded as a route to social mobility. For this to be the case, however, the link between family background and adult outcomes must be broken (or at least reduced) once we take account of an individual's education history. This paper focuses on individuals who have completed...

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The short run elasticity of National Health Service nurses' labour supply in Great Britain

Crawford, Rowena; Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl - 2015

in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the …

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The impact of training on productivity and wages : evidence from British panel data

Dearden, Lorraine (contributor); Reed, Howard (contributor); … - 2005

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The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

Dearden, Lorraine (contributor); Ferri, Javier (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Two decades of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Belfield, Chris; Blundell, Richard W.; Cribb, Jonathan; … - 2017

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively "inclusive" growth from 1997-2004 and the Great Recession. We focus on the middle 90%, where trends have contrasted strongly with the "new inequality" at the very top. Household...

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