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In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of … wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. I find that, after controlling for individual factors and … compression and training. This positive relationship is confirmed when I consider only general training. While the former finding …
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firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific … training induce higher wages within jobs, and with future employers, even conditional on the future employer type. Because … at the opposite conclusion: That increased labor market friction reduces training in equilibrium …
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This paper studies the probability of receiving employer-paid training and training independently of who finance it for … Chile reduces the probability of receiving employer-paid training. We also find that this deficit is not compensated by … other types of training. This finding is important for two reasons. First, the proportion of temporary workers that obtain …
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This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … and negative relationship between educational attainment and on the job training and no significant relationship between … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
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We define the wage incentive to management as the wage premium the manager earns because of his/her supervising role. We adopt an approach based on what if questions and estimate the premium at different quantiles of the distribution of wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we...
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This paper formalizes the use of flexible labor contracts in an efficiency wage framework and derives market dualism as an endogenous outcome. By allowing temporary contracts to be either renewed or converted into permanent contracts, new theoretical insights emerge both on the equilibrium wage...
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This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...
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Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) between 2000 and 2014, this paper investigates the effect of labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that temporary workers contribute to firms’ labor productivity to a...
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