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Aggregate Multi-Factor Productivity : Measurement Issues in OECD Countries
Égert, Balázs - 2018
This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity …
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Optimal Higher Education Enrollment and Productivity Externalities in a Two-Sector Model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana C. - 2021
acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315884
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Ageing and Productivity Growth : Are There Macro-Level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?
Werding, Martin - 2021
demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …
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The Consequences of Being Different - Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Mueller, Barbara - 2011
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130101
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Scarring Effects of Unemployment
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2011
Using Norwegian individual register data of young workers, from the period 1986-2008, we analyze whether there are large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of repeated unemployment and being out of labor force. A nearest-neighbor propensity score matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117361
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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?
Holzner, Christian - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124387
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Trapped at Home : The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on Their Subsequent Work Career
Drange, Nina - 2012
This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105140
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Overeducation at the Start of the Career - Stepping Stone or Trap?
Baert, Stijn - 2012
This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105147
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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
Cockx, Bart - 2009
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764525
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On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite numerous attempts at developing a common European asylum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979577