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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
panel data set for Serbia, this paper combines both of these issues. Estimation of gross transition probabilities reveals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371887
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Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes
Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, we consider the effect of the educational track on the means by which individuals find employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762007
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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel stärker betont, Bildung endlich zum Top-Thema macht, die Lebensarbeitszeit fair verlängert und … je ein hohes Maß an Eigenverantwortlichkeit des Einzelnen in Bildung, Ausbildung und Beruf und die Bereitschaft, sich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884061
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NRW 2025: Vom Hort der alten Industrien zum Magnet der Moderne?
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Hombach, Bodo; Merz, Friedrich; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Die Arbeitsgruppe Beschäftigung der von NRW-Ministerpräsident Jürgen Rüttgers eingesetzten "Zukunftskommission" hat umfassende Empfehlungen für die künftige Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Nordrhein-Westfalen vorgelegt. Das Papier der von IZA-Direktor Klaus F. Zimmermann geleiteten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615419
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Vollbeschäftigung ist keine Utopie: Arbeitsmarktpolitisches Programm des IZA
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Schneider, Hilmar; Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Das Arbeitsmarktprogramm des Instituts zur Zukunft der Arbeit benennt die wichtigsten Aufgaben der Arbeitsmarktpolitik für die nächste Legislaturperiode und darüber hinaus. Thematische Schwerpunkte des IZA-Programms sind unter anderem die Schaffung von Erwerbsanreizen durch das...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615431
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Agenda 2020: Strategien für eine Politik der Vollbeschäftigung
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
vor: (1) Bildungsreform: Das Bildungssystem muss der Bedeutung frühkindlicher Bildung stärker Rechnung tragen als bisher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784558
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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion
Becchetti, Leonardo; Massari, Riccardo; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
are negligible. Second, among composition effects, education has an inequality-reducing impact, while the increase in … clear cut policy implication is that policies enhancing education and economic performance contribute to reduce happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990914
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Child Labor and Learning
Emerson, Patrick M.; Ponczek, Vladimir; Portela Souza, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884083
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The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
. Furthermore, effects are heterogeneous across education groups: teen motherhood has larger negative effects on high school … completion and years of schooling among poor and low-education households. Our results imply that policies aimed at reducing … early childbearing will have important short-term effects on young women's education outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884092
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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884097