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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …
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Are Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility Biased by Non-Response? Evidence from the Netherlands
Golsteyn, Bart - 2018
Intergenerational mobility is often studied using survey data. In such settings, selective unit or item non-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective responses bias the estimated relationship between parental...
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The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands
Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; ter Weel, Bas - 2022
This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...
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The Duration of the School-to-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries : A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation
Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2022
Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case with Austria, Poland and the UK in a gender perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The...
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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014
Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and … Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce … presence of older workers as younger and older workers turn out to be complements in the production of knowledge. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384982
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Knowledge spillovers in science and technology parks : how can firms benefit most?
Díez-Vial, Isabel; Fernández Olmos, Marta - In: The journal of technology transfer 40 (2015) 1, pp. 70-84
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The impact of convergence between science and technology on innovation
Lee, Chul; Park, Gunno; Kang, Jina - In: The journal of technology transfer 43 (2018) 2, pp. 522-544
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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751718
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Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444703
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445026