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Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …

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Is There a Trade-off Between Job Security and Wages in Germany and the UK?

Hübler, Dominik; Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are …

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Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education

Fahr, René - 2003

Using detailed time use data for Germany a positive correlation is found between the level of schooling education and …

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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...

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The Impact of Local Labour Market Conditions on Participation in Further Education in England

Clark, Damon - 2002

Over the past 30 years, participation in Further Education (FE) in England has been markedly counter-cyclical. What is more, it has yet to increase beyond the peak of 70% reached in 1993, much to the concern of policy-makers. An obvious explanation for these facts is the availability of labour...

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Improving Health and Safety in the Informal Sector: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Triyana, Margaret; Xia, Xing - 2023

Workers in small businesses in low- and middle-income countries are exposed to significant risks of occupational accidents and illnesses. A safe and healthy workplace could improve the productivity and sustainability of the business. In this paper, we conduct a randomized controlled trial in...

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Managing Skills in Organizations - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Grabe, Leonhard; Sliwka, Dirk - 2025

We study the value of skill management in organizations. In a natural field experiment with 2,582 service technicians, we vary managers' ability to monitor and manage employee skills. We find that removing managers' access to hard information on employee skills reduced training intensity, work...

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Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...

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The quest for more and more education: Implications for social mobility

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2012

In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and show that this rise has featured faster increases in education acquisition by people from...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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