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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks : Do Labor Policies Matter?

Almeida, Rita - 2018

Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...

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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Non-Experimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Andersson, Fredrik - 2016

We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...

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Wages and Employment : The Role of Occupational Skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Labor Market Policy : A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …

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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?

Holmlund, Bertil - 2014

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … result of frequent failures to find noticeable employment effects despite considerable effects on wages. EPL research has …

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Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations : A Meta-Analysis

Card, David E. - 2009

This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...

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Out of Work and into School : Labor Market Policies and College Enrollment During the Great Recession

Barr, Andrew; Turner, Sarah E. - 2021

The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...

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Does Income Inequality Lead to Terrorism?

Krieger, Tim - 2016

We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 114 countries between 1985 and 2012. We provide evidence, robust to various methodological changes (e.g., different dependent variables, instrumental-variable approaches), that higher levels of income inequality are...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

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