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efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
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Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of US-born workers … relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of US workers. However, contrary to the findings of previous …
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This Paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital … accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the mobility up the occupational ladder in the host country. Using human … capital theory, we derive a non-linear model that imposes restrictions across the earning equations of natives and immigrants …
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In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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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 programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
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