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Workforce ageing and the training propensity of Italian firms: cross-sectional evidence from the INDACO survey

Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, I provide a probit analysis in which the propensity of private Italian firms to offer on-the-job training is linked to the age and the gender of the employed workforce as well as to a set of relevant corporate characteristics such as size, sector, geographical location, innovation...

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Vorausschätzungen für die Entwicklung der Gesamtbevölkerung und der Beschäftigung in Österreich bis 2035

Biehl, Kai; Fent, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper investigates the future development of the Austrian population for the period from 2005 to 2035. The main focus of our investigation lies on the working age population and its age structure. Our calculations are based on the population projection released by Statistik Austria in 2005....

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Education, Signaling, and Wage Inequality in a Dynamic Economy

Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Many empirical works suggest that education has a positive effect on earnings not only because it raises human capital but also because it functions as a signal when employers have incomplete information on employees' skills. The signaling role could have important consequences on the dynamics...

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The “Sheepskin Effects” of Canadian Credentials

Hui, Taylor Shek-wai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper re-examines the “sheepskin effects” of educational credentials in Canada using data from the 1996 Census and Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. I found that the estimated credential effects are sensitive to specifications. Regressions analysis in the standard model may not be...

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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok

Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

. This issue is significant because of the threats and challenges associated with process of rapid ageing of Polish society … discusses social theories of ageing, historical factors affecting on the social position of old people category, changes in … economy. It also features ageing population issue, as well as social policy towards the elderly and old age in Bialystok as …

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Education, Demographics, and the Economy

Jaag, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper deals with two issues concerning the effects of population aging on education decisions in the presence of a PAYG pension system: We first analyze the effects of an aging population per se on individual skill choices and continuous education and the production structure. Second, we...

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Demographic Transition in Andhra Pradesh : Dividend or Burden?

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

While most of the developed countries moved out of dividend phase and entered into aging burden phase, the developing countries are now witnessing demographic dividend phase. India is one of the countries that are experiencing bulging youth (15-34) and thereby working age (15-59) population...

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La elección del sector laboral y los retornos a la educación en Guatemala

Alejos, Luis Alejandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper estimates the returns to education in Guatemala, while attempting to account for self-employment and the presence of workers without monetary earnings in the economy, factors whose omission can potentially lead to sample selection bias. The analysis uses data from the Survey of Living...

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Conscription and the returns to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity

mouganie, pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In 1997, the French government put into effect a law that permanently exempted young French male citizens born after Jan 1, 1979 from mandatory military service while still requiring those born before that cutoff date to serve. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the...

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Human Capital, Aggregation, and Growth

Growiec, Jakub - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The famous Mincer equation regressing log earnings on years of schooling is derived from a linear human capital accumulation equation at the individual level. Even if the cross-sectional Mincer equation holds at the level of individuals, it does not hold at the macro level of countries because...

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