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Firms in developed countries face increasing shortages of young workers. This paper studies the importance of young workers, particularly vocational trainees, for firm technology investments. Leveraging exogenous variation in trainee supply caused by an education reform in Germany in 2001, I...
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This paper analyzes the reasons for the large and persistent gaps in transitions after secondary school between native pupils compared to second- and third generation immigrant pupils in Germany. I first document that differences in parental background, skills (such as school degrees or test...
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One of the main concerns with youths is the nem-nems, which correspond to the group of youths that are not investing in their productive skills through the activities of either studying or working. This study analyzes data from National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de...
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We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
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general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market …
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Due to its extraordinary explanatory power for individual behavior, the interest in the concept of locus of control (LOC) has increased substantially within applied economic research. But, even though LOC has been found to affect economic behavior in many ways, the reliability of these findings...
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investments nevertheless. When outsiders have an effective entry threat, insiders are forced to accept higher employment of … outsiders and share the reduced rents with them. However, full employment is not necessarily reached and in any case investments …
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losing self-employment is an even more harmful life event than losing dependent employment. Monetary and non-monetary reasons … seem to account for the difference between the two types of work. Moreover, it originates from the process of losing self-employment … and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
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