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Employment Effects of Educational Measures for Work-Injured People

Bach, Henning; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Høgelund, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

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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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Bourlès, Renaud; Cette, Gilbert; DROMEL, Nicolas L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

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Steering towards the High Road:A Study of Human Resource Management inTwo Indian Garment Factories

Lake, Henrietta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost laborenvironment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paperpresents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resourcemanagement systems at two garment...

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Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

, mostly improving wages and reducing over-education and occupational downgrade of those working in licensed jobs. However, not …

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Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories

Lake, Henrietta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: ZwischenStrukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Eichhorst, Werner - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...

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An Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult Program in Minnesota: Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Bendewald, Ellen; Maryns, Nicholas; Robertson, Raymond - 2016

Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I‐B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non‐experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that...

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