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not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education/training …
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40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to … identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on training participation, and the effect of training participation on … wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …
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The study examines the relationship between work arrangements and workplace performance on large capital building sites.
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which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity …
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significant role. We find positive and significant effect of training programs on outflows from unemployment to employment, thus … providing strong evidence against recent cuts in training expenditures. …
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The setting of user prices for enterprises with large fixed costs and marginal costs below average costs – “natural monopolies” – raises important policy questions regarding both efficiency and equity. It has become well accepted among economists that, in a variety of settings, welfare...
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This study considers the joint role of job and housing location as they affect the earnings of different race and gender groups. Building on Wial's (1991) case study of networks in Boston which distribute good jobs, the `network hypothesis' suggests that the channels which distribute high wage...
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that suggest that discrimination may also be a factor. …
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debate, but little systematic evidence has been presented to substantiate claims regarding discrimination against particular … are also more likely to experience success in confirmations. We found no evidence of gender or race discrimination on the …
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Over the past 20 years, finance has become commodified. Firms increasingly obtain finance from securities markets, instead of borrowing from commercial banks with which they have long-term relationships, while Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac package a growing number of mortgages into bonds. When...
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