With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an …' propensity to hire the outof-work, by lowering the costs of low-skill labour, reducing associated administrative and regulatory …

With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an …' propensity to hire the outof-work, by lowering the costs of low-skill labour, reducing associated administrative and regulatory …

training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large … high wages), and if few good jobs are available, workers have little incentive to acquire skills. In this context, the … paper examines the need for and effectiveness of training policy, and provides a possible explanation for why Western …

wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …

on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively good substitutes for native workers, the impact of …

’ of temporary employment with regards to the 2004-2006 period by using Labour Force Survey data. Although limited, this … period is also important because of the further steps in ‘flexibilisation’ of the Italian labour market associated with the … (again controlling for a host of covariates) with training activities. …

fertility on gender differences in labor turnover, employment, and wages. In our framework, individuals search for jobs and …, employment, and wages. We find that fertility decisions generate important gender differences in turnover rates, with long … lasting effects in employment and wages. These differences in labor turnover account for almost all the U.S. gender wage gap …

indeed a close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the …

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes … like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training … studies. We relate the results to the relevant level of female labour force participation. …