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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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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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We analyzed the effects of workers’ competencies and job content on their overall, intrinsic, and extrinsic job satisfaction. We focused on pharmacy assistants, an occupational group that operates at the interface of professional health and commercial activities. This means that pharmacy...
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data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance …
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the ‘Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Europe’ project, I find that, in line with the human capital perspective …
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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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In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data thatcontain detailed information on individual workers’performance. We find that 10per cent increase in tenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 per cent of astandard deviation. This translates to an...
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