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employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
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Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms may react to increasing skill requirements either by training or hiring the new skills, or a combination of the two.Using matched datasets with about 1,000 French plants, we assess the relative importance of these...
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This paper aims at evaluating to what extent one’s position in the labour market is determined by his social background and what explains differences between seven West-African capital cities. Does the father’s position influence directly the occupational situation of his children through...
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entrepreneurial familial background impacts informal businesses outcomes in the West African context. In the USA, a literature aiming …-employed have better business performance than children of wage earners. However, it is not obvious that this result could be … outcomes than children of wage earners, except when they choose a familial tradition in the same sector of activity. Thus, in …
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conducted in seven African countries, which provides a consistent and comparable picture of the situation of youth employment in …
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transitions from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to self-employment, and from self-employment to wage employment …
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employment of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, our empirical analysis confirms that new … layers is favourable to older workers. Training contributes to protect older workers in terms of employment and/or of wages …
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Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likelyto face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we thenassess the relative...
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