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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
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The work-to-school transition : job displacement and skill upgrading among young high school Dropouts
Bennett, Patrick - 2021
This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668975
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864583
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Can subsidising job-related training reduce inequality?
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Benecchi, Andrea; Malley, … - 2017
A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK … very effective in reducing inequality, measured as the distance between skilled and unskilled wages and incomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704691
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
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Modelling volatilities and conditional correlations in futures markets with a multivariate t distribution
Pesaran, Bahram (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499671
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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
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Automation and employment over the technology life cycle : evidence from European regions
Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2024
exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …
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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? : evidence from 11 European countries
Brunello, Giorgio - 2002
In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, I find evidence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408779
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Has EMU had any impact on the degree of wage restraint?
Posen, Adam Simon (contributor);  … - 2006
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