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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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The Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States: The Long View, 1948–2013

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020

Over the 1948–2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...

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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - 2013

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...

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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies

Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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The assignment of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013

This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and firms...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital and Earnings in Contemporary Russia

Borisov, Gleb V.; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2016

We make use of longitudinal data for the Russian economy over 1994-2013 to obtain earnings and education information about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity and find high intergenerational correlation of earnings...

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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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