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How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach
Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data ontasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital tomeasure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility andwages show that labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861660
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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matchingin the Labor Market
Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. Weinvestigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data fromPortugal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861854
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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledgeand Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, inaddition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, unionwage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship...<BR>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862711
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Training Background and Early Retirement
Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859647
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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 … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859575
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria:Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countriesfor the participants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861563
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Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods : The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector
Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860262
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Becoming an Entrepreneur
Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact onincome of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametricmatching estimator the paper alleviates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863120
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861168