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A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...
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, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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leavers with lower levels of general education are selected into apprenticeships with less favorable employment prospects in …The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992 …. A bivariate probit model, using data from the BIBB/IAB employment survey, is applied to estimate simultaneously the …
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Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are associated with benefits, as well as non-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs,...
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This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female … demographic and labor market determinants: age, sector, contract type, location, and education. We find that (i) overall since … countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and higher …
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consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Uniquefor this study is that identity is defined according to a two …
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural … account the endogeneity of the residency and labor force participation decisions of older persons.We find that the effect of … coresidency with adult children on the labor force participation of older adult differs by urban vs. rural residence. In 1982, the …
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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labor force participation and employment after a period of around two years. Our results are robust to a variety of … the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade liberalization on labor force participation of women. To identify the causal effect … measures of trade protection and different time periods. Moreover, we find evidence that employment flows across sectors …
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region falls behind several other geo-economic regions in terms of women's participation rates in the labour market. This paper examines the implications of firm-related and national factors for Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) rates in...
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