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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278807
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854771
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Training background and early retirement
Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; De Grip, Andries - 2008
workers who participated in firm-specific training in their early careers retire earlier than workers with a general training … background. This indicates that shared investments in firm-specific training are embedded in implicit contracts that induce early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268867
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An examination of the work history of Pittsburgh steelworkers, who were displaced and received publicly-funded retraining in the early 1980s
Bednarzik, Robert W.; Szalanski, Joseph - 2012
A gap in the displaced worker-training literature is that the post-retraining period has not been studied over the long … 25 year period following their training. With our small sample, but in-depth examination, we will begin to remedy this … gap in the literature. To understand better the training programs available for displaced steelworkers, we also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282159
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Causes of changing earnings inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272949
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Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students' employability across Europe, mainly by introducing the two-cycle degree structure of Bachelor (BA) and Master (MA). More than 20 years later, we examine whether these goals were met by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882333
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The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education
Elsayed, Ahmed; Shirshikova, Alina - 2023
We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296813
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Why Has Science Become an Old Man's Game?
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaule, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023
We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377268
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Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science
Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network – representing 20-33% of the frontier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497917
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Default options and training participation
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2013
This paper analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses which...
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