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Adjusting content to individual student needs : further evidences from a teacher training program

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Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor market and skill outcomes using experimental and...

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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2020

A randomized controlled trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive short-term impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men and disappear 12 months after the training. The main channel is increased adoption of recommended business...

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...

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Career choice and economic innovation : a comparison between China, Germany and the USA

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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies

Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014

In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask …

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Corporate governance, favoritism and careers

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Should I stay or should I go? : career choices for young workers in Latin America

Martínez Heredia, Diana; Rucci, Graciana; Saltiel, Fernando - 2018

Labor market institutions shape the return to workers’ skills. They define the incentives of firms and workers to invest in general and specific skills, affecting the returns to experience and tenure. This paper presents an empirical assessment of this hypothesis. We take advantage of rich...

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Who gets promoted to the top? Nuanced personality and psychosocial trait differences in highly structured work environments : evidence from German professional female athletes

Krause, Felix; Chan, Ho Fai; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; … - 2021 - This version: April 16, 2021

Despite a solid foundation of women's career progression research, the role of personality and psychosocial … characteristics in explaining objective career success is not yet fully understood. Structural underrepresentation of female … perspectives on the role of gender and personality in career advancement prevail. On the one hand, the gender-invariant role …

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