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Employee training and wage compression in Britain
We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to a ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Qualifications; Industry; Income ... [+] Show more
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Estimating the return to training and occupational experience: the case of female immigrants
Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Middle East; Israel
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Participation; Outcomes; Employment ... [+] Show more
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Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers
Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these los ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: North America; United States
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Providers of education and training; Outcomes ... [+] Show more
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Firm-level social returns to education
Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model o ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Europe; Portugal
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Income; Statistics ... [+] Show more
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Training and union wages
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase o ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Industry; Income; Statistics ... [+] Show more
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Agglomeration effects on employer-provided training: evidence from the UK
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity - measured as the number of employee ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Economics; Performance; Workforce development ... [+] Show more
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Crossing the tracks?: more on trends in the training of male and female workers in Great Britain
A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing finding that the ‘adva ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Gender; Outcomes; Statistics ... [+] Show more
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Skill policies for Scotland
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Sc ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain; Scotland
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Employment; Skills and knowledge; Income ... [+] Show more
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Technology adoption and workforce skill in US manufacturing plants
This paper examines the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill in US manufacturing plants. Us ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: North America; United States
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Workforce development; Technology; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more
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The effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programs on the duration of unemployment in Eastern German ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Employment; Evaluation ... [+] Show more