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The knowledge regions in the enlarged Europe

Colombelli, Alessandra; Foddi, Marta; Paci, Raffaele - 2011

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

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Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education

Silliman, Mikko; Virtanen, Hanna - 2019

We study labor-market returns to vocational versus general secondary education using a regression discontinuity design created by the centralized admissions process in Finland. Admission to the vocational track increases annual income by 7 percent at age 31, and the benefits show no signs of...

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Getting It Right: Youth Employment Policy within the EU

Pastore, Francesco - In: CESifo Forum 18 (2017) 2, pp. 26-33

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Quality Education, Social Cohesion and Active Labour Market Policies : A Comparative Analysis of Two European Island States

Camilleri, Mark Anthony; Camilleri, Adriana Caterina - 2022

Societies benefit from the delivery of inclusive education, lifelong learning and from active labour market policies. Therefore, this research presents a critical review of the relevant literature. It features a comparative analysis on the latest socio-economic policies that are currently being...

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Avoiding digital divide in European Union through European green deal

Brătucu, Gabriel; Nichifor, Eliza; Sumedrea, Silvia; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 24 (2022) 59, pp. 77-93

innovation, investment, and jobs, can support the positive transformation of European society, even against a backdrop of …

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Luxembourg - Harnessing Skills for More Inclusive Growth

Stráský, Jan - 2022

Digitalisation, automation and future technological changes are changing the world of work, affecting the skills needed to perform them. The future of jobs will not look like the present situation: increasingly, workers will have to adapt to fast technological change, accept more mobility during...

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Gross earning inequalities in OECD countries and major non-member economies : determinants and future scenarios

Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2014

Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...

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

Broecke, Stijn - 2016

Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (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)...

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Getting it right : youth employment policy within the EU

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay discusses the determinants of youth unemployment within the EU and then the alternative policy options currently at stake. We argue that youth unemployment regards especially some peripheral EU countries and is due to a mix of factors that should be addressed more vigorously, starting...

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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...

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