Life-cycle theory predicts that employers enter into implicit contracts with newly hired employees to ensure rent-sharing and to decrease turnover after firm-specific training investments. Typically, these implicit contracts would include both upward sloping earning profiles and mandatory...

Human capital factor endowments have become one of the main determinants of international competitiveness. Both to catch up in the technological race and to increase the long-term flexibility of the workforce, industrialized countries require a highly skilled labour force. This paper analyzes...

In most industrialised countries, one may observe the tendency for higher educated people to be employed in jobs that used to be occupied by lower skilled people. Although this tendency appears to be a rather general phenomenon, economic literature provides no clear clue about the causes of this...

For the growing group of flexible workers, further investments in their human capital are even more important than for employees with permanent contracts, because the labour market position of flexible workers is continuously at risk. In this paper, we analyse the participation rate of flexible...

Until now there has been surprisingly little research on the causes of and the remedies for skills obsolescence. This study tries to fill that gap to some extent by analysing the relation between risk factors and skills obsolescence. Moreover, the role remedies play to counter skills...

In 1995 bracht het ROA prognoses naar buiten die erop wezen dat zich de komende jaren een opmerkelijke omslag op de arbeidsmarkt voor hoger opgeleiden zou voltrekken. Op grond van de ervaringen van de laatste twee decennia was destijds het beeld ontstaan van grote groepen afgestudeerden van met...

In this paper we develop a framework that is based on short-term projections of matching problems. This framework enables us to investigate the potential for reducing matching problems on the regional labour market by means of training policies that focus on the unemployed. For this purpose we...

In dit werkdocument wordt een overzicht gegeven van de methodiek die is gehanteerd bij het opstellen van de arbeidsmarktprognoses naar opleiding en beroep tot 2004 en de bijbehorende arbeidsmarktindicatoren ten behoeve van het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2004 en de...

Dit werkdocument maakt deel uit van het Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt (POA). Dit project wordt gefinancierd door het Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen, Arbeidsvoorziening Facilitair Bedrijf, het LDC Expertisecentrum voor Loopbaanvraagstukken en het Ministerie van Landbouw,...

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