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The impact of temporary employment and employment protection on labour productivity: evidence from an industry-level panel of EU countries
Lisi, Domenico - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 2, pp. 119-144
In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...
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The impact of "equal educational opportunity" funds: A regression discontinuity design
Ooghe, Erwin - 2011
Many countries provide extra resources to schools serving disadvantaged pupils. We exploit a discontinuity in the assignment of such personnel subsidies in Flanders to estimate the impact on cognitive outcomes via a regression discontinuity (RD) design. Because bias can be substantial in RD...
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A comparison of firm-level innovation cooperation in five European countries
Arvanitis, Spyros; Bolli, Thomas - 2009
This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level … in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. …
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Vocational Training: Does it speed up the Transition Rate out of Unemployment?
Cockx, Bart; Bardoulat, Isabelle - 2000
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on therate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme...
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Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies
Cockx, Bart - 2013
In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low educated. In this study we set a diagnosis of the main structural factors and advance key remedies. We analyze the system of employment protection, education and passive and active...
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The impact of training on productivity and wages: firm level evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - 2010
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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Wage dispersion and firm productivity in different working environments
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2009
has, to our knowledge, never been explored on an empirical basis. Using detailed LEED for Belgium, we find a hump …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271243
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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim - 2003
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a ?control function? estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In the absence of interaction effects between explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272726
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - 2009
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313228
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages. Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Panel Data
Konings, Jozef - 2008
This paper uses longitudinal data of more than 13,000 firms to analyze the effects of on-the-job training on firm level productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes firms more productive. On-the-job training...
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