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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
This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims … to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of …, we find that voucher use positively affects worker employability awareness and willingness to train. Remarkably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764599
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233838
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763690
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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763851
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
to employability, but that this varies by age across genders and that outdoor activities contribute most towards higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701328
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Sibling Influence on the Human Capital of the Left Behind
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left behind, this is the first study to highlight the importance of sibling interactions in such a context. Using panel data from the RUMiC Survey, we find that sibling influence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990928
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A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers
Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline the importance of programs that encourage early school leavers to return to post-school...
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Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Stenberg, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. The results are strongest among males and those with low educated...
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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884095
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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
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