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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013
to employability, but that this varies by age across genders and that outdoor activities contribute most towards higher …
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Retaining through training : even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235187
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"Employability-miles" and worker employability awareness
Gerards, Ruud; Grip, Andries de; Witlox, Maaike - 2012
This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims … to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of …, we find that voucher use positively affects worker employability awareness and willingness to train. Remarkably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613686
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Strategies to productively reincorporate the formerly-incarcerated into communities : a review of the literature
Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2018
Two-thirds of those released from prison in the United States will be re-arrested within three years, creating an incarceration cycle that is detrimental to individuals, families, and communities. There is tremendous public interest in ending this cycle, and public policies can help or hinder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880782
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Intergenerational effects of incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep; Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; … - 2018
An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795077
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Does the early bird catch the worm? : Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor);  … - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280722
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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309274
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Close neighbours matter : neighbourhood effects on early performance at school
Goux, Dominique (contributor); Maurin, Eric (contributor) - 2006
Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310967
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The risk-return trade-off in human capital investment
Christiansen, Charlotte (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003334059