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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skilltraining programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and...
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This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training …?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor demands indicate that training complements ICT but not other capital goods. SYS …?GMM estimates of production functions reveal that ICT capital is most productive if complemented by training measures in skill …
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This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …
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This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different … training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of … a smaller positive impact, while training on the job, seminars and talks and job rotation do not affect productivity …
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Education in today's society has meant that new challenges arise, including training on coexistence and a culture of … communications technology (ICT) can support training in conflict resolution in Colombian public education. To address the use of … technology for training in conflict resolution in this experience, the authors took into account the following categories of …
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wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. I find that, after controlling for individual factors and … compression and training. This positive relationship is confirmed when I consider only general training. While the former finding … is consistent with both competitive and non - competitive approaches to training, the latter result is only consistent …
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-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks; and (iv) promote entrepreneurship/self-employment, on-the-job training and life … skills training among job seekers. …
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Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However …, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary … agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often previously unemployed, paid work in combination with training should lead …
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Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
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