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Ageing workforce's impact on modern organizations : how to extend working lives?

Debelak, Katja; Grah, Barbara; Penger, Sandra - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 9 (2023) 1, pp. 166-180

The ageing workforce is a growing concern for modern organisations as the proportion of older workers in the labour … organisation. However, on the other hand, the ageing workforce also poses several challenges, including issues related to health …, productivity, and retirement. This paper examines the impact of an ageing workforce on modern organisations. The paper aims to …

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Does education improve cognitive performance four decades after school completion? : a replication study of Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Demography, 2014)

Tawiah, Beatrice Baaba; Schiele, Valentin - 2025

. Schneeweis et al. (2014) use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and exploit compulsory …

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The bilingual gap in children's language, emotional, and pro-social development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Harmon, Colm; Staneva, Anita - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-41

In this paper we examine whether - conditional on other child endowments and family inputs - bilingual children achieve different language, emotional, and pro-social developmental outcomes. Our data, which allow us to analyze children's development in a dynamic framework, are extracted from the...

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Improving early literacy through teacher professional development : experimental evidence from Colombia

Marinelli, Horacio Alvarez; Berlinski, Samuel G.; … - 2022

and their students with structured materials. Following a year of instruction by the trained teachers, students' literacy … improving literacy skills than implementing remediation strategies in third grade. …

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A cross-country study of skills and unemployment flows

Stijepić, Damir - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-30

Using an international survey that directly assesses the cognitive skills of the adult population, I study the relation between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that skills have an unconditional correlation with the...

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Education and economic growth : does the East Asian education fever overstate the growth effect?

Jin, Jang C.; Kim, Dan-A - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 15 (2024), pp. 1-7

This paper employs a cross-country regression to investigate the role of education in the growth of nations. The sample includes 101 countries over the period from 1980 to 2015. We have found that education, in general, has significant effects on economic growth. For the robustness of the...

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The impact of entrepreneurial education and educational attainment on entrepreneurial activity : evidence from selected high-income economies

Bayar, Yılmaz; Sart, Gamze; Gavriletea, Marius Dan; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 23 (2022) 6, pp. 1257-1279

Entrepreneurship has become an important tool for job creation, economic growth, improvements in productivity and production, and innovation. Therefore, key country and individual-level factors driving entrepreneurship have been explored in the related literature. Furthermore, entrepreneurial...

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Short-term earnings mobility in the Canadian and German context : the role of cognitive skills

Pullman, Ashley; Gauly, Britta; Lechner, Clemens - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

It is well-established that human capital contributes to unequal levels of earnings mobility. Individuals with higher levels of human capital, typically measured through education, earn more on average and are privy to greater levels of upward change over time. Nevertheless, other factors may...

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Education without formal schooling through tablets and tutors : evidence from out-of-school children in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic

Glewwe, Paul; Li, Zhigang; Loyalka, Prashant; Rahman, … - 2024

This paper estimates the impact on children's learning of one specific education technology (EdTech) intervention in Bangladesh: providing tablets with educational software, combined with private tutoring, to out-of-school students using a randomized control trial. The provision of tablets and...

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Age in employee selection and promotion : a comprehensive study

Černíková, Iveta; Šnýdrová, Markéta; … - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 33 (2024) 5, pp. 599-616

This study examines the role of age in the selection and promotion of employees within public and private organizations, with a particular focus on Czech organizations. The research investigates the impact of age on career advancement across various industries and regions, aiming to provide...

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