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Improving the employment rates of people with disabilities through vocational education
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Polidano, Cain - 2011
panel econometric estimation with longitudinal data from Australia to show that vocational education has a considerable and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278628
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Subsidizing vocational training for disadvantaged youth in developing countries: evidence from a randomized trial
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kugler, Adriana D.; Meghir, Costas - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269013
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Job Loss : Bridging the Research and Policy Discussion
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2005
In this paper I discuss a structural problem facing the United States with respect to our policy responses in the context of trade and technological change and their impact on workers. Both trade and technological change have put enormous pressure on the U.S. economy to raise the skill level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262228
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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2004
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261872
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The impact of demographic change on human capital accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269139
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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim - 2003
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a ?control function? estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In the absence of interaction effects between explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272726
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Investment in human capital during incarceration and employment prospects of prisoners
Giles, Margaret; Le, Anh Tram - 2009
2003 Survey of Prisoners in Western Australia, the decision of prisoners to invest in education/training during their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275693
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The wage premium of foreign education: New evidence from Australia
Chan, Gavin; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012
the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We … find substantially higher returns from human capital obtained in Australia and other OECD countries compared with non … immigrants from non-OECD countries are the ones who can gain the most from obtaining further education in Australia, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282409
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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262738
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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262780