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Investing in People for the 21st Century
Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009
The paper draws upon the work of T.W. Schultz to show that human capital theory andlabor market adjustments have important implications for investing in people for the 21st Century.[...]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360744
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Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market : A Quantitative Estimate
Teignier, Marc - 2014
This paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and labor force participation on aggregate productivity and income per capita. We simulate an occupational choice model with heterogeneous agents in entrepreneurial ability, where agents choose to be workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057637
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The labor market in Ukraine : rebuild better
Anastasia, Giacomo; Boeri, Tito; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - 2022
remedial education to the pupils having lost years of education, and offering retraining to job losers still far from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472432
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Gross earning inequalities in OECD countries and major non-member economies : determinants and future scenarios
Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2014
Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465013
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Making the labour market work better in Poland
Boulhol, Hervé - 2014
Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375396
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The Impact of EITC on Education, Labor Market Trajectories, and Inequalities
Albertini, Julien; Poirier, Arthur; Terriau, Anthony - 2021
federal EITC. In this paper, we analyze the effect of state EITC on education using policy discontinuities at U.S. state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245903
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Educación y mercado laboral: Revisión de la literatura y algunos hechos para la Argentina
Paz, Jorge A. - 2005
This work studies the relationship between education and labor market performance, first by making a review of the … literature on the subject, and then by examining certain stylized facts. For the empirical evaluation, education is analysed …. Therefore, education is here discussed as an input, and labor market results, as an output. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323093
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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary
Varga, Júlia - 2003
strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521985