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Is the labor market vulnerability of less-educated men really about job competition? : New insights from the United States
Gesthuizen, Maurice; Solga, Heike - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 47 (2014) 3, pp. 205-221
"There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an...
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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that...
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Vocational training, SMEs and innovation in Navarre.
Olazaran, Mikel; Albizu, Eneka; Lavía, Cristina - In: Cuadernos de Gestión 13 (2013) 01, pp. 15-40
Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …
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Innovation, Labour Demand and Wages in Poland. Some Introductory Results Using Micro-macro Data
Walewski, Mateusz - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009
There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for...
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522419
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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113358
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Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality
Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; Macmillan, Lindsey - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those growing up under a selective education system with...
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Efectos del prestigo de los colegios de enseñanza media, de las Universidades y el aprendizaje del empleador sobre los salarios en Chile
Paola, Bordón - In: Estudios Públicos (2014) 133, pp. 69-96
This paper studies the effects of attending a private high school, the university ranking and the employer learning on wages. The empirical strategy is based on the Mincer-type wage regressions. The analysis was carried out using individual-level data from Chile. I find a large and significant...
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Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality
Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; Macmillan, Lindsey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those growing up under a selective education system with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959701
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Selective schooling systems increase inequality
Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those growing up under a selective education system with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261673