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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment : evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020
transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job … Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS), we calculate three measures of vertical mismatch. This allows … unemployment risk, through a Routine Task Index (RTI) calculated on Italian data. Results indicate that mismatched workers are at …
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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education : lessons from Portugal
Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro S.; Reis, Hugo - 2021
We document and analyse the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education in Portugal between 1994 and 2013. As Portuguese workers have been educated in different school systems, we have to distinguish birth cohorts. Analysing the wage gaps within cohorts, we find no support for...
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Dynamics of returns to vocational education in China : 2010-2017
Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data (2010-2017) to analyse the returns to different education qualifications. We additionally compare the returns to vocational education with returns to academic education, at both the upper secondary level and the tertiary level....
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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...
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Learning the right skill : the returns to social, technical and basic skills for middle-educated graduates
Cnossen, Femke; Piracha, Matloob; Tchuente, Guy - 2021
Technological change and globalization have sparked debates on the changing demand for skills in western labour markets, especially for middle skilled workers who have seen their tasks replaced. This paper provides a new data set, which is based on text data from curricula of the entire Dutch...
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Does vocational education pay off in China? : instrumental-variable quantile-regression evidence
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
As China's firms upgrade their position in the quality ladder, vocational education may become more important. In this paper, we study returns to secondary vocational education in China paying attention to individual heterogeneity. We use instrumental variables based on geographical and...
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Towards a European full employment policy
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Full employment in the European Union member states is a challenge but feasible, also in downswings of the business cycle and during stages of increased robotization. It requires a labor legislation that ensures flexibility and retraining, responsive labor sharing during the business cycle and...
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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples : evidence from the UKHLS
Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - 2021
Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical evidence on the existence of a healthrelated 'added worker...
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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the province of Bolzano
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
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