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Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain

Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we examine the returns to computer skills in Britain. Many researchers, using information on computer use, have concluded that wage differentials between computer users and non-users might, among others, be due to...

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The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates: a European view

Hans, Heijke; Christoph, Meng - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

transition from education to the labour market. Using a unique data set on the labour market situation of graduates in nine … European countries, we investigate the significance of five characteristics of the higher education programmes: (1) The … occupations.First, our results reveal in particular the importance of the competence orientation of the education programme …

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Determinants of dropout behaviour in a job training programme for disadvantaged youths

de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010

A general conclusion of the youth job training programme (YJTP) evaluationliterature is that these programmes are more effective when completed. Yet,YJTPs suffer from substantial dropout problems. This paper studies the extent ofthe dropout phenomenon and under which circumstances dropout is...

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Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

Andreas, Ammermüller; Hans, Heijke; Ludger, Wöszmann - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance …

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Is there a link between economic outcomes and genetic evolution? Cross-country evidence from the major histocompatibility complex

Borghans, José; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

This research develops a theory and presents empirical evidence of a link between economicoutcomes and genetic evolution. Important properties for successful analysis of such a link arefound in the adaptive immune system and particularly in the major histocompatibilitycomplex (MHC), a...

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Job-training programmes with low completion rates: The case of Projoven-Peru

de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010

Projoven is an ongoing Peruvian youth job-training programme started in 1996and conducted in successive waves or ‘public calls’. The programme has twophases of instruction: i) three months of classroom training, followed by ii) threemonths of on-the-job training internship. From 1997 to...

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The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change

Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2005

The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firmsas a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labourcan result both from reduced production time and from improved communicationpossibilities. The first shifts the...

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Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2005

In many Western countries, the relative weight of people – measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) – has increased substantially in recent years, leading to an increasing incidence of overweight and related health problems. As with many forms of risky behavior, it is plausible that overweight...

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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison

Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...

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The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages

Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

This paper models the impact of the diffusion of computers on the wage structure, starting from the observation that computer use increases individual productivity, but also the supply of goods. This latter effect negatively affects workers producing similar goods. If the productivity gain is...

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