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Youth unemployment and vocational training

Biavaschi, Costanza; Eichhorst, Werner; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012

This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and education policies. We highlight the role of demographic factors, economic growth and labor market...

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A roadmap to vocational education and training systems around the world

Eichhorst, Werner; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Schmidl, … - 2012

With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper provides a better understanding of VET around the world, dealing with three types of vocational...

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FDI and wages : evidence from firm-level and linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2008

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - 2012

strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. -- foreign acquisitions ; FDI … ; earnings ; wage differentials ; productivity ; difference-in-differences matching ; employer effects ; Hungary …

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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in

Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...

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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …

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Understanding Wages: Structure, Uncertainty, Inequality

Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

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German job mobility and wages

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework and the industry approach. Using German panel data, changes of workplaces within the firm as well as between the firms are carefully separated from occupational changes....

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Euroskepticism in the crisis : more mood than economy

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014

Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...

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