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European Labour Mobility : Challenges and Potentials
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low-skilled people and a simultaneous shortage of skilled workers. This lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262152
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262556
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Informal workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 countries
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286002
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Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216291
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761793
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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597334
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
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Does Education Enhance Entrepreneurship?
Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021
. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658234
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558947
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The assignment of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and firms...
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