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This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … also holds for older workers, suggesting that firm-provided training may be an important instrument to retain older workers … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual …
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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization and consequent international technological transfer. Using a panel of 1,940 Ethiopian firms over the period 1996–2004 and deploying GMMSYS...
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productivity of laggard firms, employment, and intensity of skilled workers. Our findings indicate that African firms are improving …
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Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training policies. Moreover …This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating …, the greater the government expenditures on employment and training subsidies, the higher the taxes required to finance …
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important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by … that there are more unskilled workers associated with a relatively low employment rate. Third, the government budget … constraint has to be taken into account, which is supposed to cause an additional tax burden for the skilled workers. This …
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the largest decrease are in art, culture, and recreation (-14.8 percent); in education, law and social, commu- nity and …
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Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...
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professional groups - Managers, Clerks, Craft and Manual workers, defined on the basis of ISCO classes - and the increasingly …
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In order to understand the employment effects of technological progress, it is useful to separate three types of technologies: 1) automation technologies, 2) technologies that create new tasks, and 3) capital- or labor-augmenting technologies. These different types of technological advances...
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