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"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness
Gerards, Ruud; de Grip, Andries; Witlox, Maaike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related to various personality traits and personal characteristics. In …
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments: The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a...
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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …
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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
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Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; Das, Narayan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
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Youth Unemployment in India: From a European and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This essay first sketches some descriptive material, setting the stage and demonstrating the highly differentiated statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second, it provides a simple but powerful model for the...
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The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed
Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...
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Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities through Vocational Education
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Polidano, Cain - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western economies, hardly responding to better macroeconomic conditions and favourable anti-discrimination legislation and interventions. Continuing health and productivity improvements in...
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Youth Unemployment in Mediterranean Countries
Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education are low and the transition from education to work is...
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini; McKenzie, David; Almeida, Rita K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...
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