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ABSTRACT: This paper uses the data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to examine the impact of vocational education and training received over the period 1981 to 1991 on the wages growth of young men in employment in both 1981 and 1991. Issues of sample selectivity and of training endogeneity are also addressed. In particular, the paper examines the durability and transferability of work-related training and educational courses received over the period 1981 to 1991, and estimates the extent to which employer-provision, job mobility and certification of courses affect individual productivity, as proxied by wages growth in a fixed effects model.
03/2004;
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Elias P
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ABSTRACT: This paper presents evidence about the nature and extent of memory recall problems when identifying unemployment spells in work history data collected by retrospective interview techniques. The analysis compares data from two sources; the British Household Panel Study and the Family and Working Lives Survey with the Labour Force Survey. It is shown that recall problems may be severe, particularly for women and for older workers generally.
Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER working papers. 01/2004;
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ABSTRACT: This paper estimates models of training based on count data, in which the dependent variable takes only non-negative integer values corresponding to the number of work-related training courses occurring in the interval 1981 to 1991. The data set is the National Child Development Study. The raw data indicate substantial over-dispersion, and tests of the negative binomial model against the Poisson model indicate that the former better describes the data. Over half of the young men had no work-related training at all over the period 1981-1991, and there is evidence of a "skills-segmented" labour market. The estimates indicate strong complementarities between past general education and training, suggesting that reliance on job-related training to increase the level of skills of the British workforce will result in an increase in the skills to the already-educated, but will not improve the skills of individuals entering the labour market with a low level of education.
Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER working papers. 01/2004;
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ABSTRACT: This study reveals the longer term consequences of redundancy, shown to include discontinuous employment, deskilling and significant movement down the earnings distribution. Redundancy is studied within the wider and more general context of occupational change and earnings growth, as revealed in an examination of labour market data from the first five waves of the British Household Panel Study. Using a broad classification of occupations designed to reflect skill levels, it is shown that the working population experienced significant growth in high level occupations (senior managerial and professional occupations) and a decline in lower level occupations (clerical, secretarial, personal service, operative and unskilled jobs). Between these two groups sit the intermediate occupations (junior managerial, associate professional, technical and craft jobs). Within this category, craft occupations, continue to decline through the 1991-95 period, at a faster rate than during the preceding decade. These jobs, together with low-skilled occupations experience the major share of redundancies. Workers made redundant are less likely to work in future years and are more likely to experience significant downward movement in their occupational position and earnings. Work-related training is received by a good proportion of ex-redundant workers who regained employment during the period studied, but no evidence was found to support the hypothesis that the experience of training may protect them from the negative consequences of redundancy.
Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER working papers. 01/2004;
