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Retaining Through Training : Even for Older Workers

Picchio, Matteo - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the …

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Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities Through Vocational Education

Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2011

During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western economies, hardly responding to better macroeconomic conditions and favourable anti-discrimination legislation and interventions. Continuing health and productivity improvements in...

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'Employability-Miles' and Worker Employability Awareness

Gerards, Ruud - 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 …

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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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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration

Bhuller, Manudeep - 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...

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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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The Consequences of Long Term Unemployment : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2016

It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity)....

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