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prepare students to a better entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students' use of ICT in … such an institution characterized by organizational changes and we analyse the determinants of students' e-skills using a … 2010 dataset of French university students. We show that students' involvement in the use of ICT increases their e …
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We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into...
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High-tenure workers who lose their jobs experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this paper is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and...
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This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...
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In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up marginal employment up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...
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The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
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The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290001
I study the business practices of the Comédie française, the main theater in Paris, between 1680 and 1793. The theater … increased in the second half of the 18th century as demand for entertainment in Paris boomed. The increase came in part from box …
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results from a field experiment of the impact of tightening the administration of benefits in which benefit claimants were …
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results from a field experiment of the impact of tightening the administration of benefits in which benefit claimants were …
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