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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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We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...
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employees' wages. Particularly, it distinguishes the different paths seniority-earnings profiles follow depending on whether the …, two propositions are set. It is argued that in the union sector seniority should be an important determinant of wages …
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We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital...
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This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …
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This paper constructs and estimates a career decision model where individuals search for both career matching and employer matching to understand wage growth and career mobility using the NLSY79. It departs from previous papers in that career mobility decisions and participation decisions are...
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affected work-related training and how the union-training link affected wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …
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raising both wages and returns to experience in denser areas …
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firms to pay differentially high wages. We estimate individual worker hold-up power by occupation using the effect of worker … permanent firm productivity innovations to wages, supporting the main model predictions. Accounting for heterogeneity in hold …) hold-up power decreases the responsiveness of wages to labor market slack …
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This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between self-employment and paid-employment. Using Spanish administrative data, we characterize the distribution and dynamics of earnings and document lower and less dispersed earnings...
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