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Training and Wages of Older Workers in Europe

Belloni, Michele - 2014

European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Undertaking training … are highest in Austria, Germany, Greece, and Italy and are about half that in France and Spain. No premium is found for …

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Is Employment Polarization Creating More Over-Educated Workers? Evidence from Germany, Spain, Sweden and UK

Sarkar, Sudipa - 2016

covering the period from 1999 to 2007, the paper analyses employment change and over-education in four countries of Europe … – Germany, Spain, Sweden and UK. The results suggest higher incidence of over-education in polarized countries – Spain and UK as … compared to countries with employment upgrading – Germany and Sweden. It also reveals that in Spain and UK, over-education is …

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Kurzarbeit and natural disasters : how effective are short-time working allowances in avoiding unemployment?

Fournier Gabela, Julio Gustavo; Sarmiento, Luis - 2020

There is substantial evidence on the effectiveness of short-time work on reducing unemployment. However, no study looks at its role during natural disasters. This article exploits the exogenous nature of the 2013 European floods to assess if the impact depends on the quality of the short-time...

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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...

Orrù, Enrico - 2012

This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...

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Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? : causal evidence from East Germany after reunification

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024

After the German Reunification in 1990, East Germany transitioned from a centrally planned economic system to a market …-level analysis of East Germany between 1991 and 2002. Our identification strategy is based on a decentralized expansion of courses … average. Yet, in counties neighboring West Germany, we find that courses reduced unemployment. Low labor demand may have …

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The regional distribution of public employment : theory and evidence

Kessing, Sebastian; Strozzi, Chiara - 2016

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-effciency trade-off. The optimal...

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