Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect employed friends have on the probability of exiting unemployment of an unemployed worker according to his/her educational (skill) level. Design/methodology/approach: In common with studies on unemployment duration, this paper uses a...

We study the effect of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on the workforce composition, in terms of distinct age groups with similar qualifcations, within the low paying sectors of the economy. Our interest is in the degree of substitutability between labour inputs (young and old employees) in the...

In this paper we consider an equilibrium model of demand and supply for several qualifications first in a competitive setting and then in a non-competitive setting. We propose a tractable analytical framework, i.e. when workers choose between qualifications according to a multinomial logit model...

We study the effect of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on the workforce age composition within the low paying sectors of the British economy. Our interest is in the degree of substitutability between labour inputs (young and old employees). We find evidence that both the introduction and the...

In this paper we investigate the role of workers’ training history in determining current training incidence. The analysis is conducted on an unbalanced sample comprising information on approximately 5000 employees from the first seven waves of the BHPS. Our methodology utilizes a two-step...

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey for the years 1998-2005, this study estimates the impact of work-related training on earnings levels. Different measures for general and specific training are constructed from available information. The analysis diverges from the standard fixed...

Despite the extensive empirical literature documenting the determinants of training participation and a broad consensus on the influence of previous educational attainment on the training participation decision, there is hardly any reference in the applied literature to the role of past...