The empirical literature on employer learning assumes that employers learn about
unobserved ability differences across workers as they spend time in the labour market. This …

Abstract here is mutual benefit for employers and workers when workers improve their skills
beyond the minimum requirements for their position—a fact not lost on employers, many of …

Educating a worker may generate knowledge spillovers by increasing what others can learn
from him or by increasing what he can learn from others. This paper provides a theoretical …

Skills are central to achieving robust economic growth and to reducing economic inequality.
When assessing these relationships, researchers usually focus on a narrow range of skill …

This paper presents an empirical study of the impact of the Underutilization of workers'
educational skills (or simply “overeducation”) on the production of output of a firm. The study …

The UK entered the deepest recession in history in 2020, following a decade of sluggish
growth. Coronavirus restrictions led to a sharp rise in unemployment, vacancies plummeted …

In this paper, we use a unique matched worker–workplace data set to estimate the effect on
own earnings of co‐workers' education. Our results, using the 1998 GB Workplace …

Rapid technical change and globalisation have prompted policy makers to prioritise
people's skill development as a key strategy for economic and social progress. This thesis …

This paper examines spillover effects from education at the firm level, separating the effects
for different levels and types of education and allowing for a curvilinear relationship …

This paper provides more insight into the assumption of human capital theory that the
productivity of job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We …