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Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs : firm-level evidence from Estonia
Mosiashvili, Natia; Pareliussen, Jon - 2020
With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...
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Making employment more inclusive in the Netherlands
Baker, Mark; Gielens, Lindy - 2018
The Dutch labour market has recovered and the unemployment rate has been converging towards pre-crisis levels. Non-standard forms of work have expanded with a strong trend towards self-employment and an increased reliance on temporary contracts. These developments may reflect a preference of...
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Improving employment prospects for young workers in Spain
Wölfl, Anita - 2013
The unemployment rate among young people has reached painfully high levels, in particular among those young people with low levels of education. There are two crucial policy priorities to improve employment prospects for youth in Spain. First, in the very short term, there is need for quick...
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Matching skills and jobs in Estonia
Demmou, Lilas - 2012
-to-job transition, improving the cooperation with employers to improve vocational training programmes, stepping up targeting life …
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Investing efficiently in education and active labour market policies in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline - 2013
In Slovakia, educational outcomes are below the OECD average and are too dependent on the socioeconomic background of students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active labour market policies are very low by international...
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Firm investments in skills and capital in the UK services sector
De Lyon, Josh; Dhingra, Swati - 2020
show that firms were less likely to increase expenditure on worker training in the periods following each event. In the … period following the EU Referendum, firms were 9% less likely to increase expenditure on worker training relative to the … and machinery; and land and buildings. Following the EU Referendum, firms were also more likely to reduce training …
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Improving skills and their use in Germany
Fuentes, Andrés; Lehmann, Stephanie; Kim, Eun Jung - 2018
vocational education and training system could help ensure the capacity of graduates to adapt to technological change at higher … age in the future. Participation in life-long learning could be encouraged by better addressing individual training needs …
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Going national : implementing the OECD jobs strategy
Crivellaro, Elena; Hijzen, Alexander; Schwellnus, Cyrille - 2019
This paper provides guidance for developing country-specific policy recommendations from the broad policy principles of the new OECD Jobs Strategy. To this end, it identifies countries’ main policy challenges and develops broad policy packages to address them. It highlights the importance of...
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Generating employment, raising incomes and addressing poverty in Greece
Bulman, Tim; Pisu, Mauro - 2018
Employment is pivotal to strengthening Greece’s economic recovery, increasing social welfare and redressing poverty. Jobs are returning, making inroads into high unemployment, but their wages and skill levels are lower than many that were lost during the crisis. Greece’s hiring is benefiting...
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Do structural policies affect macroeconomic stability?
Ziemann, Volker - 2013
Using a panel of OECD countries, this study assesses the linkages between structural policies and macroeconomic stability. Business cycle and time-series characteristics of GDP and its components are employed to define various measures for economic instability and for the persistence of adverse...
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