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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

skills using pre-program data and then forecasting the program impacts. We compare the forecasts to observed aggregate labour …

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Employer Learning And The Returns To Schooling

Bauer, Thomas; Haisken-DeNew, John P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labour market experience and increase with initially...

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Training and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm …

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

between vocational skills and available jobs, the record of vocational schooling has been more positive. Israel constitutes a …

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Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic

Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In this Paper, we analyse the recent patterns of occupational segregation by gender in the EU countries vis-á-vis the US. Given the lack of long time-series data on homogeneous LFS data about occupations and educational attainments for male and female workers in EU countries, we use a single...

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Retaining through training; even for older workers

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Learning for Employment, Innovating for Growth

Falkinger, Josef; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We present a model in which workers have to be educated to get employed and firms have to innovate in order to increase productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning opportunities differ across workers determine...

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Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...

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How Labour Market Flexibility Affects Unemployment: Long-Term Implications of the Chain Reaction Theory

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as … fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the … unemployment not only in the short run, but in the long run as well. The reason is that, in the presence of growing exogenous …

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Regional Aspects of Unemployment in Europe and in Italy

Schioppa, Padoa; Kostoris, Fiorella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Unemployment in Europe is a worrying phenomenon not so much because it hits 18 million people, but because it almost … unemployment rate. Thus, understanding the Italian unemployment and finding effective solutions for it, is useful to understand and …

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