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Job Training, Remote Working, and Self-Employment: Displaced Workers Beyond Employment Hysteresis

Focacci, Chiara Natalie; Santarelli, Enrico - 2021

, to participate in training measures for: a similar job, remote working, and self-employment. Findings from a seemingly …-commitment training measures for similar jobs and remote working for employees who: i) positively value their professional social capital …

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Should I Train or Should I Go? Human Resources, Human Capital, Turnover and Service Quality

Georgiadis, Andreas; Kornelakis, Andreas - 2024

Extant literature documents a relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and performance, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are still not well understood. We develop a theoretical framework of the HRM-performance relationship fusing an employment systems...

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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Campaner, Annika; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2018

likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that … employees are more likely to receive training when their jobs are characterized by greater decision-making autonomy and task … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply …

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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths - Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...

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What shifts did covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

Baert, Stijn - 2021

This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...

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Which Occupations Do Jobseekers and Firms Look For? Evidence from Three Public Employment Services

Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

This study proposes and applies a new methodology to analyse firms' and workers' occupational preferences. We use microdata covering all 2014-2018 vacancy and jobseeker registrations from the Public Employment Services of Belgium, Morocco, and South Korea. We find that a small number of...

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Defining and Measuring Workforce Development in the United States in a Post-Bipartisan Era

Holland, Brian - 2018

The bipartisan acceptance of a federal role in workforce development policy is no longer in play as a result of ideological differences in the definition of workforce development which arise from a lack of coherent and misunderstood outcomes. My attempt here is to posit a new definition for...

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How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession

Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...

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