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The rhetoric of Europeanisation of dual vocational education and training in Spain
Martín Artiles, Antonio; Lope, Andreu; Barrientos, Daniel - In: Transfer : the European review of labour and research ; … 26 (2020) 1, pp. 73-90
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Size of training firms and cumulated long-run unemployment exposure : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers’ careers
Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289960
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Unemployment and occupational mobility at the beginning of employment career in Germany and the UK
Schmelzer, Paul - 2011
Gerade am Anfang der Erwerbskarriere ist Arbeitslosigkeit keine Seltenheit. In diesem Artikel argumentieren wir, dass … in Abhängigkeit von institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen Arbeitslosigkeit verschiedene Konsequenzen für die zukünftige … Position nach der Arbeitslosigkeit verbessern. Bei Auswertung der Daten werden GSEP und BHPS Datensätze benutzt und simultan …
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Temporary agency work : temporary agency work is not generally a stepping-stone to regular employment
Houseman, Susan N. - 2014
Temporary agency work has expanded in most advanced economies since the 1990s, but its growth has been controversial. Some argue that these jobs offer experience and contact with potential employers, serving as a path to regular employment, particularly for low-skilled workers. Others view them...
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Structural adjustment and endogenous worker recall probabilities
Meland, Frode; Torsvik, Gaute - 2002
In this paper we investigate the incentives of unemployed workers to wait for a recall when recall probabilities are endogenously determined by the waiting decisions of others. Because of a positive externality that arises when workers seek new employment, an excessive number of workers choose...
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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019
We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...
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Where does education pay off in sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from two cities of the Republic of Congo
Kuepié, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe J. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Oxford Development Studies, 2016
Using first-hand data from the 2009 Employment and Informal Sector Survey (EESIC) in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, we analyse the impact of education on labour market outcomes, and identify the segments where education pays off the most....
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Does job support make workers happy?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017
Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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