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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?
Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2014
minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …
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Examining the relationship between entrepreneurship, unemployment and education in South Africa using a VECM approach
Kaseeram, Irrshad; Mahadea, Darma - In: International journal of education economics and development 9 (2018) 3, pp. 193-209
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Does education prevent job loss during downturns? : evidence from exogenous schools assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021
Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …
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The effect of educational technology on college students’ labor market performance
Lu, Yi; Song, Hong - In: Journal of population economics 33 (2020) 3, pp. 1101-1126
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GDP development and employment in Egypt (2000-2013)
Malec, Karel; Gouda, Shereen; Kuzmenko, Elena; … - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 6 (2016) 1, pp. 199-206
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Testing positive for automation : labour-replacing technology and job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
Euston-Brown, Angela - 2022
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Does education prevent job loss during downturns? : evidence from exogenous school assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - In: European economic review : EER 162 (2024), pp. 1-14
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On-the-job training, firing costs and employment
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003
This paper explores the influence of on-the-job training on the employment effect of firing costs. It shows that on-the-job training (generating firm specific skills) causes firing costs to have a contractionary influence on average employment (over the booms and recessions of the business cycle).
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On-the-job training and the effects of insider power
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their reservation wages. How will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in...
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The effects of minimum wages on youth employment and income : minimum wages reduce entry-level jobs, training, and lifetime income
Kalenkoski, Charlene - 2016
opportunities for youths and create unemployment. Workers miss out on on-the-job training opportunities that would have been paid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514826