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Patterns of Integration: Low Educated People and their Jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary
Kollo, Janos - 2013
jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified … highly complex jobs. In Hungary, insufficient skills (relative to Norway) and an undersized small-firm sector (relative to … workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their involvement in various forms of post-school skills formation. The countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329141
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Patterns of Integration: Low Educated People and their Jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary
Köllő, János - 2013
jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified … highly complex jobs. In Hungary, insufficient skills (relative to Norway) and an undersized small-firm sector (relative to … workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their involvement in various forms of post-school skills formation. The countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494742
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Interactions between employment and training policies
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272951
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Lost in Transition: The Costs and Consequences of Sectoral Labour Adjustment
Tapp, Stephen - 2007
inability to transfer match-specific skills to new jobs. I apply the model to examine Canada's sectoral labour adjustment after … wage effects and the response of unemployment to changes in unemployment benefits. The model estimates that the costs of … mainly in the first three years after the shock and are due largely to non-transferable skills. Finally, the analysis reveals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940756
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The effect of low-wage subsidies on skills and employment
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on aggregate employment. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of unskilled work relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272975
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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless : Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2004
. When we evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are entering AWAs as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262124
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In-work benefits and the Nordic model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Tonin, Mirco - 2012
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291388
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Size-dependent gender gaps in entrepreneurship: The case of Chile
Cuberes, David; Teignier, Marc - In: Latin American Economic Review 31 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19
This paper documents differences in firm size depending on whether their manager is a man or a woman and studies the aggregate implications of these gender gaps in Chile. We document that in 2007 less than a quarter of firms are managed by women and that this gap takes its largest value for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205149
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Will There Be a Shortage of Skilled Labor? An East German Perspective to 2015
Buscher, Herbert S.; Dettmann, Eva; Sunder, Marco; … - 2009
facing high unemployment in the course of economic transformation and experiences population aging and shrinking more rapidly …Wie andere ostdeutsche Bundesländer auch steht Thüringen noch immer einer hohen Arbeitslosigkeit infolge des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271401
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304