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Do Low-Skilled Youngsters get Better Jobs in Countries where Internal Labour Markets Dominate?

de, Grip Andries; Wolbers Maarten H.J. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

In this paper, we analyse to what extent the quality of the jobs of low-skilled young workers is affected by the labour market structure in various European countries. We focus on the differences between countries in which internal labour markets (ILM) are prevalent and countries in which...

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Upgrading in the European Union

de, Grip A.; Hoevenberg J. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 1996

increase in skill levels and rather stable participation in continuing vocational education. The data also reveal diverging … substitutability between initial education (i.e. recruitment policies) and continuing training. However, if we correct for the …

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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?

Annemarie, Nelen; de, Grip Andries; Didier, Fouarge - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2011

This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivityin the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sectorthat includes the work hours of all employees and a “hard” physical measure offirm productivity, we estimate a production function...

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Occupation Specific or Generic Skills? Conflicting Interests of Firms and Apprentices

W, Smits - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2001

Firms and apprentices have conflicting interests with respect to the content of training programmes. On the basis of a model for the investment decision in occupation-specific and generic training, I will show that, in the case of imperfect competition, firms are not only unwilling to pay for...

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Occupational Structures across 25 EU Countries: The Importance of Industry Structure and Technology in Old and New EU Countries

Frank, Cörvers; Jaanika, Meriküll - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2008

This paper analyzes the occupational structures of 25 European Union countries during the period 2000-2004. Shift-share analyses have been used to decompose cross-country differences in occupational structure into within industry and between industry effects. The static analysis for 2004 shows...

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The Occupational Structure of Further and Higher Education in Ireland and the Netherlands

Borghans L.; Hughes G.; Smits W. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 1997

Although most types of education give access to a range of occupations, the educational background determines to a … countries, there is a question about the specific role of each type of education in a country and the influence of the structure … of the educational system as a whole on the relationship between education and the labour market. In this paper a …

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The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation: Evidence from a natural experiment

Raymond, Montizaan; Frank, Cörvers; de, Grip Andries - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenouschange in future pension benefits on workers’ training participation. We use uniquematched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sectorwho were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...

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Which skills protect graduates against a slack labour market?

Martin, Humburg; de, Grip Andries; der, Velden Rolf van - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2012

This paper explores the relationship between graduates’ skill levels and the risk ofovereducation and unemployment in 17 European countries. We distinguish betweenfield-specific and general skills and between two labour market segments, theoccupational domain of a particular field of study and...

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Evaluating Human Capital Obsolescence

de, Grip Andries - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

Human resources are playing a central role in the knowledge economy that emerged in the Western world as the human capital embodied in both high-tech capital goods and the working population is a main determinant of the performance of individuals, organizations and national economies. Human...

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Forecasting the labour market by occupation and education: Some key issues

Cörvers, Frank; Heijke, Hans - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2005

education. These concern the use of the gap approach, and the substitution of education programmes within occupations. We show … distinguish between active substitution, resulting from supply-demand mismatches for the education programme concerned, and … passive substitution, which is due to spillover effects from supply-demand mismatches for other education programmes. Passive …

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