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This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
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How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not post wages, and, for those that do, job titles explain more than 90% of the wage variance. Job...
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better understanding of temporary skills-qualifications mismatch typical for student workers by analysing the preferences of … student vacancies require, on average, fewer skills than non-student positions, there is strong correlation between formal … sophistication of a job vacancy and the required minimum educational level, as well as required skills for both student and non …
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entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland …
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We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and … cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of … workers with well-matched skills to their job duties. Jobs are categorised according to the nature of tasks, including the …
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …
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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...
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workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their involvement in various forms of post-school skills formation. The countries … skills at all have the largest contribution but small businesses tend to employ low educated workers at a large scale even in … highly complex jobs. In Hungary, insufficient skills (relative to Norway) and an undersized small-firm sector (relative to …
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This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...
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This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and … jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic … rich skills reserves. …
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