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education and an economy. The steps help to detect cross-sectoral skills, originating in a given education path, and to connect …
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market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the … capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level …, and explores the current state of skills imbalances in the country. It identifies accessibility of schooling, provision of …
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Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the availability of skilled workers: i) the education level of the workforce and ii) large public sectors...
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In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the economy, with workers moving out of agriculture and...
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We investigate how the rapid increase in the low-skilled labor supply induced by the inflow of 2.5 million Syrian refugees changed the tasks performed by native workers and the amount of capital used by firms in Turkey. Despite the unexpected nature of the refugee inflow, location choice of the...
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Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. The local skill structure is frequently regarded as a major cause for regional growth disparities....
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, Spain, Italy and United Kingdom) over the period 1999-2011, For the first time, these relationships are separately … (2007-2011) in order to assess the impact of cycles on employment and skill dynamics, and their determinants. Skills are …
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Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....
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show that provincial GDP per capita increased with non-routine cognitive analytical skills, non-routine interpersonal … skills, and routine cognitive skills in a monotonic way, while economic value has an inverse relationship with routine manual … physical skills. Trends in skill content and intensities in aggregate production demonstrate that progress has slowed over the …
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generic skills. Going beyond the technology, I investigate whether organisational changes requiring greater employee … involvement raises the sorts of generic skills that human resource management models predict, in particular three categories of … communication skills and self-planning skills. These effects are found to be independent of the effect of computers on generic …
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