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In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a qualification program for young people in which training is fully offered by …, whose participants make up a pertinent control group in order to measure the effects of the differentiated training provided … that participation in the training program positively affects the employability of youngsters, having an impact on …
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In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a qualification program for young people in which training is fully offered by …, whose participants make up a pertinent control group in order to measure the effects of the differentiated training provided … that participation in the training program positively affects the employability of youngsters, having an impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759650
In order to test the idea that the deterioration of the Portuguese export shares in the period 1995-2004 was due to the unfavourable evolution of the unit labour costs (ULC), the import structure of Germany, Spain, France and the United Kingdom (representing about 70% of the Portuguese exports)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407500
The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...
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Any discussion on professional training and labor market insertion must take into account the social vulnerability of …
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The opportunities in the labor market and formation of human capital (education) affect the implicit costs of engaging in illegal activities. In this article we empirically investigate the effect that the unemployment rate, which real income in the labor market and which school atandence rate...
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In this article, we analyze the swings sources of demand for labor force, according to the level of schooling, in the Brazilian manufacturing industry, in the 1994-2008 period of time. We consider two theories to explain these swings sources: the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem (H-O) and the ability...
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This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...
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In the present article, we attempt to identify the sources of the changes in the labor schooling level in the three main sectors of the Brazilian economy: manufacturing, services and agriculture; based on the theoretical perspective of the three sectors hypothesis. It was verified that, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620634
Any discussion on professional training and labor market insertion must take into account the social vulnerability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965838