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Taxes, Benefits, and Careers: Complete Versus Incomplete Markets

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

An incomplete markets life-cycle model with indivisible labour makes career lengths and human capital accumulation respond to labour tax rates and government supplied non-employment benefits. We compare aggregate and individual outcomes in this individualistic incomplete markets model with those...

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Issues and problems in human resource development in the NER (India)

Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

institutions will have to start technical and professional education programs. Several new educational institutions will have to be …

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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U …

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The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: the US-EU Experience

Michelacci, Claudio; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …

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Social Networks and Labour Market Transitions

Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

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Dependent Elderly and Gender Equality in Bulgaria

Beleva, Iskra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

system, incl: services provided in institutions; services provided in the society; services provided to elderly people at … home by institutions or by society; home care for elderly by family members and other services for disabled people; medical … provided in the community and in the family, as well as by services provided in institutions. The providers of the services …

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Why effects of social capital on health status differ between genders: considering the labor market condition

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper explores how social capital is related with self-rated health status in Japan and how this relationship is affected by gender, using data for 3075 adult participants in the 2000 Social Policy and Social Consciousness (SPSC) survey. Controlling for endogenous bias, unobserved city...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...

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Retaining through training; even for older workers

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Struttura socio-economica del Comune di Carbonia: analisi del contesto territoriale

Merche, Nicola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper aims to provide a detailed socio-economic analysis of the town of Carbonia yielding insights which could serve as a stimulus and reflection, in order to guide policy makers to the adoption of public policies that could relaunch the town and the territory, making them more competitive...

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