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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual,job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previouslyunconsidered...

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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions:A Macroeconomic Perspective

Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions foreconomic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome maybe inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the impositionof a child-labor ban...

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Training the Unemployed in France: How Does ItAffect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Fougère, Denis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find littleevidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset...

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...

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"For One More Year with You":Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Educationand the Distribution of Wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time inthe changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of educationon the distribution of earnings...

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Why Are the Returns to Education Higher forEntrepreneurs than for Employees?

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and takingaccount of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than foremployees (18.3 percent and...

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Assessing the Incidence and Wage Effects ofOver-Skilling in the Australian Labour Market

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; Yin King Fok - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines the incidence and wage effects of over-skilling within the Australianlabour market. It finds that approximately 30 percent of employees believed themselves to bemoderately over-skilled and 11 percent believed themselves to be severely over-skilled. Theincidence of skills...

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...

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Offshoring and Unemployment

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates ofunemployment, we … tooffshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (costreducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if thesearch cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

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