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Earnings effects of training programs
Lechner, Michael (contributor); Melly, Blaise (contributor) - 2007
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591479
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Targeting labour market programmes : results from a randomized experiment
Behnke, Stefanie (contributor); Frölich, Markus (contributor) - 2007
We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labour market outcome for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561647
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Efficiency in employee-owned enterprises : an econometric case study of Mondragon
Arando, Saioa; Gago, Monica; Jones, Derek Charles; … - 2011
We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … managed firm ; productive efficiency ; Mondragon ; shared capitalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306898
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Do market pressures induce economic efficiency : the case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994 - 2001
Orazem, Peter F. (contributor); Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800163
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Matching efficiency and heterogeneous workers in the UK
Lisauskaitė, Elena - 2022
The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … vacancies and unemployed workers. This paper studies the changes in the labour market's efficiency over the period between 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414379
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Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children
Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2005
s. We also give microeconometric evidence for Italy, a country for which we have access to household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280829
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Is demand-pulled innovation equally important in different groups of firms?
Piva, Mariacristina (contributor);  … - 2006
Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and found that overall, evidence does not conflict with the idea that innovation may be driven by output. Using a balanced panel of 216 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283429
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Do foreigners replace native immigrants? : evidence from a panel cointegration analysis
Brücker, Herbert; Fachin, Stefano; Venturini, Alessandra - 2009
the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is … ; Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900443
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Corporate skills as an ex-ante incentive to R&D investment
Piva, Mariacristina (contributor);  … - 2007
"Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, this paper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, this study also tests the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429633
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Empirical modeling of deprivation contagion among social exclusion dimensions (using MCMC methods)
Poggi, Ambra (contributor);  … - 2007
"Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the economics literature. In this paper we explore the inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451838