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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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Inventories, Employment and Hours

Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that integrates inventory and labor decisions. We extend a model of inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs associated with it. In particular, we distinguish...

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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Serafinelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

for a larger menu of policies, institutions and structural characteristics of the economy than has been done so far, our … endogeneity of attitudes, policies and institutions, and by allowing for the persistent nature of labor market outcomes. When we … policy variables that play a role, along with attitudes, are the tax wedge and unemployment benefits. The quantitative impact …

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Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?

Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

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