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We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...
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We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance increased their searches for e-learning...
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We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325437
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
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social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …
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This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for non-western migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation non-western migrants. On the other hand, the …
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mobility behaviour of migrants and natives are generated by neighbourhood characteristics - among which the level of ethnic … individual data covering the entire population of the city. The analysis shows that Caribbean (Surinamese and Antillean) migrants … significantly hamper the out-mobility of all individuals. The impact of family ties is the largest for Turkish and Moroccan migrants. …
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suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …
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We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
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The paper analyses the problem of a skills shortage in Australia. It begins with an analysis of the operation of a labour market in terms of stocks and flows of labour services and human capital acquisition. It discusses the definition of a skills shortage, why it persists, and then looks at...
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