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The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should decrease when competition for employees is higher among...
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Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
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The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should decrease when competition for employees is higher among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734414
organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … Portugal and other European countries, over all, during the decade of 90. An analysis for sector is made still. One verifies … Portugal, concluding that Portugal presents an enterprise structure predominantly based on small and very small companies, a …
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people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast …
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?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …
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This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...
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Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants' earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting migrants are also valid in a new destination country. Two-thirds of the gap is attributable to...
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workers participating substantially less. Second, we measure the wage effects of training. We find that in Portugal returns to …
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Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …
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