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prerequisite for employment and its relevance for productivity and wages is magnified by the fact that it is only through literacy …
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migration rate, the mortality and birth rates, the unemployment rate, the real earnings, the secondary and tertiary education … instability, poor correlation between the educational programs with the labour market, low labour productivity. The European Union … the early 1990s has already reduced the population. On top of this, there is the migration of the work force - most of the …
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For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers … not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a “brain gain” to the developing country rather than in just a …
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Migration has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a … migration, however, the economic factors are considered as the primary reasons for inducing migration. Migration of male labour … force from Bihar has increased during last two decades. It was observed that the youngsters are more prone to migration and …
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-related training on earnings levels. Different measures for general and specific training are constructed from available information …. The analysis diverges from the standard fixed effects framework for earnings determination modelling and presents evidence … effects formulation for the earnings equation suggested by Nijman and Verbeek (1992) for controlling for attrition bias in …
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I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located … with HWF experience increases the productivity of other (non-HWF) firms. A simulation indicates that worker flows explain … 10-15 percent of the productivity gains experienced by other firms when HWFs in the same industry are added to a local …
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I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located … with HWF experience increases the productivity of other (non-HWF) firms. A simulation indicates that worker flows explain … 10-15 percent of the productivity gains experienced by other firms when HWFs in the same industry are added to a local …
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British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for … urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local …-born workers’ productivity and wages (via production complementarities for higher skill workers) or negative on employment (if …
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An alternative to using normally distributed random effects in modeling clustered binary and ordered responses is based on using a finite-mixture. This approach gives rise to a flexible class of generalized linear mixed models for item responses, multilevel data, and longitudinal data. A test of...
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Using the Africa Educational Trust (AET) as a case study, the primary aim of the research was to investigate whether or not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education/training courses were different from those who did not. 122...
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