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Different degrees of skill obsolescence across hard and soft skills and the role of lifelong learning for labor market outcomes
Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
-depreciating hard skills, the role of lifelong learning is primarily as a hedge against unemployment risks rather than a boost to wages …
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Using online vacancy and job applicants' data to study skills dynamics
Bennett, Fidel; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah; … - 2022
We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data. Yet, the knowledge on skills dynamics is scarce...
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Education and labor market policies in an offshoring global economy
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - In: Nordic economic policy review (2013) 1, pp. 75-98
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The work-to-school transition : job displacement and skill upgrading among young high school Dropouts
Bennett, Patrick - 2021
This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational...
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The impact of the Great Recession on overeducated and undereducated workers
Rubb, Stephen - In: Education economics 28 (2020) 3, pp. 263-274
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The knowledge lift : the Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels
Albrecht, James W.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, … - 2004
The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment...
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Do the labour market returns to university degrees differ between high and low achieving youth? : Evidence from Australia
Marks, Gary N. - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 5, pp. 1-14
and weekly earnings, employment, unemployment and full-time work. The study finds that university degrees provide …
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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment : evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020
transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job … Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS), we calculate three measures of vertical mismatch. This allows … unemployment risk, through a Routine Task Index (RTI) calculated on Italian data. Results indicate that mismatched workers are at …
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"The double-dividend of training" labour market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013370739
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
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