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Does federally-funded job training work? : non-experimental estimates of WIA training impacts using longitudinal data on workers and firms

Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...

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Does dual vocational education and training pay off?

Bentolila, Samuel; Cabrales, Antonio; Jansen, Marcel - 2023

This paper analyzes the causal impact of dual vocational education and training (VET) on the labor market insertion of youth. Using matched education and social security records, we estimate the causal impact of a major reform that introduced a new dual track, which combines firm- and...

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Market failures and the under-provision of training

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2004

This paper reviews both the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical evidence in support of the under-provision of training. While there is little if any evidence in support of underprovision because of liquidity constraints to the demand side of the market, there is evidence that employers...

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Efficiency and equity of European education and training policies

Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2006

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The value of formal host-country education for the labour market position of refugees : evidence from Austria

Ludolph, Lars - 2021

Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees using the example of forcefully displaced Bosnians who...

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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment

Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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Social security incentives and human capital investment

Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

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Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families

Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - 2001

1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …

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Longevity shocks with age-dependent productivity growth

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2015

and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account …

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Looking back in anger? : retirement and unemployment scarring

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

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