Similar Search Results

Do skills matter for wage inequality? : policies to tackle wage inequality should focus on skills alongside reform of labor market institutions

Broecke, Stijn - 2016

(as far back as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a … recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive) skills explain little of the cross-country differences in wage … inequality. Does this challenge the received wisdom on the relationship between skills and wage inequality? No, because this …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434107

A comparative analysis of the labour market performance of university‐educated immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : does policy matter?

Clarke, Andrew; Ferrer, Ana M.; Skuterud, Mikal - 2018

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798252

Skill mismatch and overeducation in transition economies : substantial skill shortages coexist with overeducation, affecting both young and old workers

Kupets, Olga - 2015

Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434453

Technical education, non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Brazil

Camargo, Juliana; Lima, Lycia; Riva, Flavio; Souza, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34

effects of the program on school progression, labor market outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Our intention-to-treat estimates … outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Employment rose by 21 percentage points (or approximately 33%) and the gains in earnings are … of more than 50%. Also, women who received the offer scored 0.5σ higher on the synthetic index of non-cognitive skills …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815172

An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru

Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015

difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427813

Human capital dynamics and the U.S. labor market

Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - 2014

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors influencing either the demand side or the supply side of the labor market. However, no matter what factors have caused the changes in the unemployment rate, these factors should...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010240062

The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile

Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020

' skills and most labor outcomes but some evidence of a effect on labor income. We also find evidence of heterogeneous effects …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587654

Improving skills and employment opportunities in Tunisia

Grundke, Robert - 2022

with the skills demanded by firms. Labour market policies and regulations discourage formal job creation and complicate the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457900

The Greek labour market before and after the pandemic : slack tightness and skills mismatch

Antonopoulos, Christos; Anyfantaki, Sofia; Balfoussia, Hiona - 2023

, labour market tightness could increase further. This concern is further compounded by extensive survey evidence of skills …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259509

A comparison of growth percentile and value-added models of teacher performance

Guarino, Cassandra Marie; Reckase, Mark D.; Stacy, Brian; … - 2014

School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating teacher quality. This paper examines under what circumstances the decision between estimators of teacher quality is important. We examine estimates derived from growth percentile...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249396