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How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …
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the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …
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difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …
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distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign … country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled employment in the home country. Thus it prevents a fraction of …
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An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583660
distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign … country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled employment in the home country. Thus it prevents a fraction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020797
Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia). We develop a measure of human capital that accounts for the selection of workers with different unobserved...
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Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits …
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