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The next wave of energy innovation : which technologies? Which skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337365
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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development
Eicher, Theo S. - 2000
endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781636
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Israel's high fertility rate and anemic skill acquisition
Razin, Asaf - 2017
The exceptionally high fertility among ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Arab minority, increasing portions of the population, is the main reason for Israel's flagging labor-force participation. In addition, high fertility diminishes Israel's skill attainment of the labor force. A rise in income...
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The importance of education for the reallocation of labor: Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986 - 2002
Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - 2007
Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … self-employment and formal salaried jobs, suggesting the existence of barriers to this type of mobility or a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304
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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
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Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? : evidence from an online labour platform
Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili - 2019
We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...
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Occupation growth, skill prices, and wage inequality
Böhm, Michael; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Schran, Felix - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … leading explanations for occupational employment changes, price and employment growth are positively related. Strong … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment …
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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Alternative measures of teachers' value added and impact on short and longterm outcomes : evidence from random assignment
Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024
A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...
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