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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2013

labor market entry onwards and estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of vocational training choice, labor supply, and wage … progression. Most particularly, our model allows for labor market frictions that vary by skill group and over the business cycle … their careers, while job mobility is important for workers who acquire skills in an apprenticeship scheme before labor …

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Human Capital and Competition: Strategic Complementarities in Firm-based Training

Stevens, Margaret - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Vocational training systems differ markedly between countries. A model of firm-based human capital investment predicts equilibria characterised by particular patterns of training and job-to-job mobility, consistent with observed cross-country differences. Incentives to invest in human capital...

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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success: Evidence from German Soccer

Hentschel, Sandra; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...

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Improving School-to-work Transitions in New Zealand

Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...

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The Interaction of Firing Costs and Firm Training

Lechthaler, Wolfgang - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2006

This paper analyzes the effects of firing costs in a broader setup than what is usually done, allowing for on-the-job training. By doing so the traditional analysis is extended with respect to two points: On the one hand firing costs clearly increase firm training because worker and firm are...

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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...

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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth

Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999

This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...

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Occupation-Specific Human Capital and Local Labor Markets

Groen, Jeffrey A. - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2005

Most skills acquired through on-the-job training may be specific to an occupation and therefore transferable to some but not all firms. This paper explores the relationship between the size of the local market for an occupation-specific skill and job-training outcomes. The Stevens (1994) model...

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An agent-based simulation of the Swiss labour market : an alternative for the labour market policy evaluation

Baruffini, Moreno - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Active labour market policies (ALMPs), which are primarily addressed to integrate (or reintegrate) into the labour market those who are on the edge of unemployment, are generally analysed in the context of a macroeconomic approach or within a micro-econometric model. A critique of the usual...

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Senior management labor market: from economic growth to crisis. The case of Russia

Solntsev, Sergey - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

This paper presents an analysis of changes in senior management labor market in Russia during the 2000s. The original … the proportion of women and expats in the senior management market. We found that the Russian labor market of top …

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