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Vocational rehabilitation in the form of education is the cornerstone of governmental rehabilitation programs for the … the hazard rate to education and the return to work, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of … education. In addition, we allow for any enhanced employment effects of a unique wage subsidy program in Denmark, giving …
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employment protection, education and passive and active labor market policies. A high minimum wage, a strict separation between …
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This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection …, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP growth. The contribution of the interaction between product market …
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question, further action is necessary. The IZA concept includes the following elements: (1) Education reform: Early childhood … education must be improved. Social background should no longer determine future career prospects. More independence and … competition between schools and universities would improve the quality of education. Selection of students into different …
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insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...
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Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms’ demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel...
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Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsprobleme des deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nicht alle Schwierigkeiten überwunden. Für die Zukunft besteht die zentrale Herausforderung darin, eine...
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A unique dataset from Italy is used to study the effect of unfavorable business cycle conditions at entry on future workplace safety of young workers. We find that higher local unemployment rates at entry have a positive effect both on severe injuries and non-severe injuries. While the impact of...
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We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
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