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the initial period of nonemployment. Policy response for these long-term problems has centred on education, training and … skill development. This paper surveys and assesses a variety of strategies that have been employed to determine training … training for displaced workers are low, almost surely less than the (well-estimated) returns to formal schooling which lie in …
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incentive for employers. Some assumptions underlying the employer subsidy are: that apprenticeship training is a principal … contributor to the skilled trades labour supply; that employers of apprentices typically incur high training cost and risks; and … hierarchy of trades occupations. The interviews reveal sharp variations in employers’ workplace training efforts, challenging …
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The literature has not yet resolved whether the effect of macroeconomic fluctuations on training decisions is positive … or negative. On the one hand, the opportunity cost to train is lower during downturns, and thus training should be … to skill, making training incidence pro-cyclical. Using the Canadian panel of Workplace and Employee Survey (WES), we …
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This paper studies the incidence and duration of unemployment in Canada at an aggregate and a number of disaggregated levels with data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey covering 1976 to 2006. The principal empirical findings indicate that most of the changes in steady state unemployment...
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through additional skill acquisition and training. The analysis thereby suggests that policies to curb dropping out could have …
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Il est largement prouvé que les travailleurs déplacés possédant une longue ancienneté professionnelle ont souvent des difficultés à retrouver un nouvel emploi et subissent en général une baisse de gains lorsqu'ils en trouvent un. Pour ceux ayant une très longue ancienneté, les pertes...
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displaced long-tenure workers tend to be centred on education, training and skill development. A report by CLSRN affiliate … Stephen Jones (McMaster University) entitled “The Effectiveness of Training for Displaced Workers with Long Prior Job … Tenure†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 92)* cautions that research shows returns to training for displaced workers that are low …
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