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force participation, low skills levels and high skill mismatch. Job creation is key to tackling the high unemployment rates …The various deficiencies of the labour market and the educational system have resulted in high unemployment, low labour …, especially for the young and long-term unemployed. Promoting jobs without paying attention to their quality and to the skills …
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. Consequently, entrant workers have lower job-finding rates and longer unemployment durations than the unemployed who have looked …
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labour market outcomes. Using relevant data on tasks and skill needs in jobs, collected by the European skills and jobs … skewed towards routine jobs with low demand for transversal and social skills. The risk of job displacement by machines is …
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A number of studies have examined the impact of local labor market conditions on school dropout. However, none of them have considered the role of the industry structure. We construct data for a panel of Spanish regions and identify the effect of local labor markets using a variation of the...
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The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school leavers without sufficient qualification. In addition, declining PISA scores and a rising share of low achievers are raising concerns about the quality of the future labour force....
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the Czech labour market. The higher share of tertiary education graduates has increased the supply of skills … youth unemployment are persistent and especially affect the lower-skilled. Skill and occupational mismatches of vocational … time, the labour market has been responding faster to output shocks and output growth consistent with constant unemployment …
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New technologies can shape the production process by affecting the way in which inputs are embedded in the organization, their quality, and their use. Using an original employer-employee dataset that merges firm-level data on digital technology adoption and other characteristics of production...
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This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary...
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We study the Lemons Problem when workers have private information on both their skills and their intrinsic motivation …
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sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid … growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused on the pursuit of formal credentials rather than productive skills …
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