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: Deutschland ist auch auf qualifizierte Zuwanderung angewiesen, um den Problemen von Demografie und Fachkräftemangel gewachsen zu …
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satisfaction, commitment, health, employability, social participation and effects on personal life for agency workers. It is …
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, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … employability. …
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We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a differencein- difference strategy to...
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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 …
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The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary … examines how the pension policy affects the endogenous fertility of a bargaining couple who have different lifespans. The … analysis finds out a new channel of pension policy on fertility decisions: an increase in pension size affects fertility not …
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support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the expansion of pension coverage from the state … the total education expenditure attributable to pension expansion. The results are unlikely to be driven by trends in …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … how these preferences interact with preferences for different pension schemes. In this paper we review the experimental …
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is both distortionary and inequitable. Early retirement and pension schemes should be made actuarially fairer as they …
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In the context of South Africa's pervasive poverty and mass unemployment, households provide an important private safety net for the unemployed. Using new South African Labour Force Survey panel data, I investigate how households cope with job separations and the resulting loss of earned income....
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