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Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examines the impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416927
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Age and Opportunities for Promotion
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using a panel of new firms and their employees, this paper studies the promotion opportunities for older workers within the same firm. Survival analysis suggests that younger employees experience shorter times to promotion than older workers and, therefore, the latter face a smaller likelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720693
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854771
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Multi-Task Learning and the Reorganization of Work. From Tayloristic to Holistic Organization
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks and learning across tasks). We examine four driving forces behind this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761774
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876567
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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371895
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A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744664
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Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Wagner, Natascha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720077
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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The population of most developed societies is ‘graying’. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762257
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
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