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The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment
Burger, Rulof; van der Berg, Servaas; von Fintel, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889992
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Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?
Karamcheva, Nadia S; Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272001
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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules
Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
levels and see their participation and employment probability as adults enhanced. We show that the estimated genuine impact … of attaining an academic qualification on participation and employment is always statistically significant, in particular … for women, although IV coefficients are usually below OLS estimates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703340
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
relate the results to the relevant level of female labor force participation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703577
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Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap
Gradín, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian racial groups: whites and Afro-Brazilians. We performed an Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition for nonlinear regressions in order to quantify the extent to which differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703759
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The Knowledge Lift: The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels
Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703812
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European vs. American Hours Worked: Assessing the Role of the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Langot, François; Quintero Rojas, Coralia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822388
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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation
Albrecht, James; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect … worker does not internalize the effect of his or her participation on average productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822510
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
educational investments and labor force participation based on matching regimes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703029
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Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market
McLaren, Zoe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
among either men or women. Neither increases in employment or labor market attachment in the year following a household job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570797