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Productivity and youth engagement in Brazil : assessing schooling and labor market decisions
Franca, Maíra; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; Costa, Joana Simões - 2019
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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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
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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Does relative performance information lower group morale?
Heursen, Lea - 2019 - This version: December 2019
In many organizations, productivity relies not just on individual effort but also on group morale, that is, the willingness of co-workers to help each other perform better at work. Relative performance evaluations (RPE) are known to increase individual work morale but may negatively affect group...
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Labor shortage and innovation
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2020
Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and...
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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...
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Alternative training modes for youth in Israel : results from longitudinal data
Ziderman, Adrian - 1987
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Biased by success and failure : how unemployment shapes stated locus of control
Preuß, Malte; Hennecke, Juliane - 2017
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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On the misery of losing self-employment
Hetschko, Clemens - 2014
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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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss
Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022
persistent employment and wage losses in regions where such occupations decline the most. Regional and occupational mobility … partly serve as an adjustment mechanism, but come at high cost as these switches also involve losses in firm wage premia. Non …
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Heterogeneous worker ability and team–based production : evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael - 2010
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