Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A.(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-11)
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British compulsory schooling law change and found large returns to schooling of about 15% using the General Household ...
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding ...
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly
homogenous set of companies ...
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data (NESPD) for the period 1975 to 2001 we
estimate the wage cyclicality of job stayers (those remaining within single jobs in a given company), within company job movers, and ...
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, the authors estimate the wage cyclicality (the degree to which wage levels rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns) of three groups: job stayers, ...
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the
relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out ...
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out ...
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