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This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … finding is robust to a number of robustness checks. It also holds for older workers, suggesting that firm-provided training … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278680
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … finding is robust to a number of robustness checks. It also holds for older workers, suggesting that firm-provided training … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876567
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333356
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286856
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744664
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371895
management of prisoners has changed, with more prisoners being encouraged to undertake some form of education, training and … 2003 Survey of Prisoners in Western Australia, the decision of prisoners to invest in education/training during their … prison term and the potential labour market outcomes of this investment. The results suggest that prisoners use education/training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275693
management of prisoners has changed, with more prisoners being encouraged to undertake some form of education, training and … 2003 Survey of Prisoners in Western Australia, the decision of prisoners to invest in education/training during their … prison term and the potential labour market outcomes of this investment. The results suggest that prisoners use education/training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469702
Massification of tertiary education, growing share of student workers on labour market and consequently increased … competition for low-skilled jobs gave rise to the theory of crowding out of the less educated workers. This paper contributes to … better understanding of temporary skills-qualifications mismatch typical for student workers by analysing the preferences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307360
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last three decades, with growth in top jobs always exceeding that in bottom ones. Overall, top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307418