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Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, three countries withfundamentally different education systems. Using Mixed … career.However, those with a general education background catch up over time in the labor market.Life-cycle differences in …
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This study investigates the extent and speed of dynamic adjustment of labour supply to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends. We estimate error-correction models (ECMs) for male and female participation rates in the Netherlands between 1969 and 2004. The results...
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expected at the beginning of the career. For thispurpose we use data on secondary and higher vocational education graduates in … theperiod 1996–2001. We show that graduates who are mobile have higher probabilityof fi nding jobs at the acquired education ….Th is suggests that mobility is sought to prevent not only having to take a job belowthe acquired education level, but also …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the coherence between and within functional as well as administrative regions in a labour market context. The larger the coherence of the local labour markets within the delimited regions, the larger the heterogeneity between the delimited regions is expected...
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education started to grow substantiallyaround 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education transformedgradually …
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This paper analyzes the occupational structures of 25 European Union countries during the period 2000-2004. Shift-share analyses have been used to decompose cross-country differences in occupational structure into within industry and between industry effects. The static analysis for 2004 shows...
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This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenouschange in future pension benefits on workers’ training participation. We use uniquematched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sectorwho were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...
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In this paper, we estimate the demand for workers by sector and occupation usingsystem dynamics OLS techniques to account for the employment dynamics dependenceacross occupations and sectors of industry. The short run dynamics are decomposed intointra and intersectoral dynamics. We find that...
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-sonearnings elasticity. Education by far accounts for the largest part, while cognitive skills mainlywork indirectly through educational …
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This paper examines the effect of tracking in secondary school on student performance and educational opportunities, taking into account whether prior performance is considered when students are selected in the different tracks. The sample consists of data from the Programme for International...
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