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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK

Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-07-08)

This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation ...
The extent and consequences of downward nominal wage rigidity

Devereux, Paul J. ; Altonji, Joseph G. (Emerald Insight, 2000)

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that true wage changes have many fewer nominal cuts and more nominal freezes than reported nominal wage changes. The data overwhelmingly rejects a model of flexible wage ...
Wage policy, employee turnover and productivity

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Siebert, W. S. ; Viitanen, Tarja (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-05-31)

In this paper, we are interested in the effect of pay incentives on labour turnover and productivity. Particularly we use personnel data from a panel of 400 shops from a UK retail chain. The firm uses perfectly flat ...