General education and training are major forces determining earnings. According to the human capital model, wage …. This paper is intended to analyze the effects of recent investments in human capital – general education, vocational … reveal that having been recently in education or training (mainly vocational/training courses) significantly increases the …

General education and training are major forces determining earnings. According to the human capital model, wage …. This paper is intended to analyze the effects of recent investments in human capital – general education, vocational … reveal that having been recently in education or training (mainly vocational/training courses) significantly increases the …

their skills. A general conclusion is that a previous centralistic structure of education,labour market programmes and wage …

This article describes the trends in education and continuing training in the Autonomous Community of the Basque … Country (ACBC) over the past 25 years. It begins by charting trends in the Basque education system since Spain joined the … European Community. It then examines the «standard» of education here, comparing results for skills acquired in the ACBC with …

unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced … data linked with administrative data, we show that numeracy skills are strongly related to unemployment duration, while at … longer unemployment duration of workers below median age (33) in our sample, even after including a rich set of controls. We …

new evidence on the effect of education and skill-language, computer and numeracy skills-on unemployment duration in Ghana … unemployment duration. We found that education reduces the duration of unemployment in general. However, the effect is higher for …-Saharan African countries (SSAs), particularly Ghana. The weakness in the link between education and the needed skill by the industry …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based …