Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) this paper investigates the effect of working during grade 12 on attainment. We exploit the longitudinal nature of the NELS by employing, for the first time in the related literature, a semiparametric...

Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 this paperinvestigates the effect of working during full-time education on attainment. In particular the focus ison students in the twelfth grade of high school. By employing a propensity score matching...

Die vorliegende Studie ist Teil eines Projektes zur Analyse von neuen Fertigungsstrukturen in der europäischen Automobilindustrie und untersucht die Verbindung zwischen diesen Fertigungsstrukturen und der Beschäftigtenstruktur auf internen Arbeitsmärkten in den letzten zehn Jahren anhand von...

Over the last few years, benchmarking advanced to a key word in organisational development and change management. Originally, benchmarking was a tool in business studies summarising the process of comparing your own with a similar organisational unit (mostly the competitor) in order to improve...

After an introductory discussion of market share and market failure in job matching, the results of two empirical analyses are reported. The first is a cross national comparison of the importance of the public employment service (PES) as a job search channel in 12 EU states based on a special...