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of the program, on take-up of WeGebAU and other training,and on subsequent employment. The bRochure more than doubles …
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of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
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on the impact of Chinese import competition on productivity, skills, and performance of firms., We measure import …-up and skills upgrading. Of particular interest is the finding that the effects of import competition from China are stronger … productivity of laggard firms, employment, and intensity of skilled workers. Our findings indicate that African firms are improving …
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Swedish labor market has adopted well to technological change, as it exhibits stable employment rates and steady wage growth …
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This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the … authors highlight the need for well-designed employment guarantee programsspecifically, programs centered on community and …
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to formal and informal employment. Persistent earnings differentials are used as indicators of limited mobility across … segments of the employed labor force. We find evidence of labor market segmentation between formal and informal employment and … between different categories of informal employment which cannot be fully explained by human capital, physical asset, or …
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potentially green industries outperform the others in terms of employment, average wages, value added and productivity, net of … implies an increase in employment and value added. In contrast, average wages and labour productivity remain unchanged. These …
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education outcomes, where wages are driven by individuals' ex ante abilities and acquired math skills. A large portion of within …SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC …, math-heavy college majors and highly quantitative occupations. We develop a general equilibrium model with multiple …
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Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output per worker has remained the same, despite a similar increase in human capital in both sectors. This paper emphasizes that duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous...
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education, and in consequence, inequality increases. We also show that wages and productivity gaps between high-tech and low …
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