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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale … estimate associations between work-related training and wages for private sector men in ten European Union countries. Our … results show that, for the majority of countries, there is a fairly uniform association between training and hourly wages …
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We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare … microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education …
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affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …
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How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …
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affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …
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paid work, whereas for girls we find evidence of the adverse event having a beneficial impact on schooling. To explain …
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Does trade policy influence schooling and child labor decisions in low income countries? We examine this question in … schooling and decline in child labor. These trends were attenuated in communities where employment was concentrated in … industries loosing tariff protection. The data suggest that this failure to follow the national trend of increasing schooling and …
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