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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Back on Track?: Savings Puzzles in EU-Accession Countries

Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …

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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. …

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Determinants of Savings and Remittances: Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany

Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …

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How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates

Ubfal, Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

, good-specific discounting, under certain conditions, can explain the persistence of poverty and low savings by the poor …

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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks

Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

changes in household savings are negatively related to exogenous income shocks, with this relationship strongest for low … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …

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The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity: Evidence from Madeira Island

Budria, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after the completion of the training program) depends on...

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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...

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The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms' Production Factor Decisions

Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and employment. The focus is on analyzing the effects of unions’ demands on the firm’s choice of factors...

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Identifying Adjustment Costs of Net and Gross Employment Changes

Ejarque, Joao; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

A relatively unexplored question in dynamic labour demand regards the source of adjustment costs, whether they depend on net or gross changes in employment. We estimate a structural model of dynamic labour demand where the firm faces adjustment costs related to gross and net changes in its...

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