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Can employment subsidies and greater labour market flexibility increase job opportunities for youth? Revisiting the Italian On-the-job Training Program
Tattara, Giuseppe; Valentini, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The CFL (On-the-job Training) programme was introduced in Italy in 1985 with the aim of reducing youth unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622018
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Good Firms, Worker Flows and Productivity
Serafinelli, Michel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located near highly productive firms. Using matched employer-employee and balance sheet data for the Veneto region of Italy, I identify a set of high-wage firms (HWF) and show they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111048
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Good Firms, Worker Flows and Productivity
Serafinelli, Michel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located near highly productive firms. Using matched employer-employee and balance sheet data for the Veneto region of Italy, I identify a set of high-wage firms (HWF) and show they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113660
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Employer-provided training and knowledge spillovers: evidence from Italian local labour markets
Croce, Giuseppe; Ghignoni, Emanuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
uncovering the relationship between local human capital and training. Furthermore, we check the effects of other variables … the prediction that training should be more frequent in areas where the aggregate educational level is higher. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980407
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Inequality in workers’ lifelong learning across european countries: Evidence from EU-SILC data-set
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for EU-SILC data to deepen our understanding of the determinants of inequality in workers’ formal life-long learning (LLL) in Europe. In particular we investigate the incidence of personal, job-specific and firm-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015609
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Persistence in work-related training: evidence from the BHPS, 1991-1998
Sousounis, Panos; Bladen-Hovell, Robin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we investigate the role of workers’ training history in determining current training incidence. The … unobserved heterogeneity and formal modelling of initial conditions. The results suggest that prior training experience is a … significant determinant of a worker’s participation in a current training episode comparable with other formal educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619449
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The Determinants of Participation in Adult Education and Training in Canada
Hui, Taylor Shek-wai; Smith, Jeffrey A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
education and training in Canada. Using the master file data from the 1998 Adult Education and Training Survey, we estimate … probit models of adult education and training (hereafter just “training”) incidence and hurdle models of total time spent in … training. Consistent with the literature, we find that relatively advantaged workers, such as those who have completed high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559302
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Labor Markets and School-to-Work Transition in Egypt: Diagnostics, Constraints, and Policy Framework
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Semlali, Amina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Analysis in this policy note indicates a rapid deterioration in employment opportunities for young individuals transitioning from school to work in Egypt. Despite substantial improvements in labor market outcomes in recent years (in raising employment and participation and in lowering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777401
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835360
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Two Perspectives on Multiskilling and Product Market Volatility
DeVaro, Jed; Farnham, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We study the effect of product market volatility on a firm’s choice between multiskilling and specialization. We construct a theoretical model that captures the tradeoff between multiskilling (which gives greater flexibility to reassign workers in production) and specialization (which provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587839