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Germany's labour market in Coronavirus distress : new challenges to safeguarding employment
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021
affects additional sectors of the economy where low-wage earners are affected more frequently by STW and suffered on average …
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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to … quality of education also correlates to the educational mismatch. We find a nonconditional wage penalty associated to … model returns a slightly higher sample selection corrected wage penalty, supporting not only the job competition and job …
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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021
This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
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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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Evaluation of language training programs in Luxembourg using principal stratification
Bia, Michela; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Mercatanti, Andrea - 2018
In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a language training program on the re-employment probability...
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Assessing the impact of off- and on-the-job training on employment outcomes : a counterfactual evaluation of the PIPOL program
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2019
This evaluation study aims to assess the impact of PIPOL, an integrated program of active labor policies, on the employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from two main sources: the program administration and...
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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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Do workers benefit from resource booms in their home state? : evidence from the fracking era
Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019
Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2023
Remote wage employment gradually increased in the United States during the four decades prior to the pandemic, then … Community Survey, the authors examine trends in wage and hours differentials for full-time remote workers and office …-based workers as well as within occupation differences in wage growth by work location. Throughout the period, remote workers earned …
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A literature review of the economics of COVID-19
Brodeur, Abel; Gray, David M.; Islam, Anik; Bhuiyan, … - 2020 - This version: July 5, 2020
The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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