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Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education

Fahr, René - 2003

Using detailed time use data for Germany a positive correlation is found between the level of schooling education and time investments in informal education. Two hypotheses explain this observation: (1) highly educated people have higher opportunity costs of their leisure time and thus prefer...

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Training in Europe

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the period 1994-1999. We focus on ?lifelong learning?, fixed-term contracts, part-time versus full-time work, public/private sector affiliation, educational attainment, and the...

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Von der Frühverrentung zum längeren Erwerbsleben: Transferleistungen, Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Weiterbildung

Eichhorst, Werner - 2007

Die Beschäftigung älterer Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahren merklich zugenommen. Die Studie untersucht diese jüngste Verbesserung der Arbeitsmarktsituation Älterer und analysiert den Beitrag, den die arbeitsmarkt- und sozialpolitischen Reformen der letzten Jahre dabei...

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Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; … - 2005

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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Training and retirement

Kristensen, Nicolai - 2012

This paper presents results on the effect of formal life-long learning on the decision to retire early. Specifically, I estimate an Option Value model based on individual employer-employee longitudinal data including comprehensive government co-sponsored training records dating back more than 30...

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Macroeconomic Determinants of International Migration to the UK

Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which migration is driven by macroeconomic variables (GDP per capita, unemployment rate) as well as law and policy (the existence of "free movement" rights for EEA nationals). We find a...

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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics: TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation

Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017

the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and FDI source countries. Moreover, from a theoretical perspective a … underestimation of deep integration projects such as TTIP. The panel data estimation of knowledge production functions for 20 EU … real income gain of nearly 2% should be expected for Germany (and the EU): considerably higher than what the official TTIP …

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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Branka, Jiri - 2020

physical proximity to others and their digital intensity. It is conservatively estimated that about 45 million jobs in the EU …-27 labour market (23% of total EU-27 employment) are faced with a very high risk of Covid-19 disruption and another 22 …% of the EU workforce – mostly medium- to lower-skilled service provision – is exposed to some significant risk. The burden …

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Mobility into and out of Poverty in Europe in the 1990s and the Pre‐Crisis Period: The Role of Income, Demographic and Labour Market Events

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2016

and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the … demographic events have a stronger effect in the EU‐SILC than the ECHP for poverty entries and weaker for poverty exits; e) The …

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