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Getting it right : youth employment policy within the EU
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay discusses the determinants of youth unemployment within the EU and then the alternative policy options currently at stake. We argue that youth unemployment regards especially some peripheral EU countries and is due to a mix of factors that should be addressed more vigorously, starting...
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European universities during the crisis : a public policy perspective, with a brief excursion to the US
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
productivity imparted by the knowledge economy. At the same time, equality of opportunity for participation in higher education … in Europe as in the US. Asian countries may - as a result - have improved their position in innovation. The room for …
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
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Youth unemployment in India : from a European and transitional labour market point of view
Schmid, Günther - 2015
This essay first sketches some descriptive material, setting the stage and demonstrating the highly differentiated statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second, it provides a simple but powerful model for the...
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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014
Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and … Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce … presence of older workers as younger and older workers turn out to be complements in the production of knowledge. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384982
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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...
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Youth unemployment in Mediterranean countries
Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska - 2014
situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354543
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Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy …
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445955