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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - 2013

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...

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The Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States: The Long View, 1948–2013

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020

Over the 1948–2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...

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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies

Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital and Earnings in Contemporary Russia

Borisov, Gleb V.; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2016

We make use of longitudinal data for the Russian economy over 1994-2013 to obtain earnings and education information about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity and find high intergenerational correlation of earnings...

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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...

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The assignment of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013

This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and firms...

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Retaining through training: Even for older workers

Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Causal returns to schooling and individual heterogeneity

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2012

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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