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Boosting productivity in Russia : skills, education and innovation
Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2015
The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...
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Employers' view of learning and training for an ageing workforce
Beck, Vanessa - In: Management learning : the journal for managerial and … 45 (2014) 2, pp. 200-215
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Closing the Gap between Workforce Development and Labor Markets : An Assessment of Indonesia's Workforce Development System Based on the SABER Tool
World Bank Group - 2021
Indonesia has been an independent nation for only 70 years, yet it has already reached middle-income status and aims to … international standards to inform Indonesia's current practices and catalyze policy discussions on how to improve its WfD system …. The results summarized below provide a baseline for understanding the current status of the WfD system in Indonesia, as …
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Towards a European full employment policy
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Full employment in the European Union member states is a challenge but feasible, also in downswings of the business cycle and during stages of increased robotization. It requires a labor legislation that ensures flexibility and retraining, responsive labor sharing during the business cycle and...
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The labor market in Germany, 2000–2018 : the transformation of a notoriously rigid labor market into a role model of its own style is essentially complete
Schneider, Hilmar; Rinne, Ulf - 2019
The EU’s largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity in its labor market. Institutions that typically characterize rigid labor markets are effectively balanced by flexibility instruments. Important developments since 2000...
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed : Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini - 2014
A randomized experiment is used to evaluate a large-scale, active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...
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What effect do vocational training vouchers have on the unemployed? : vouchers can create a market for training but may lengthen participants’ unemployment duration
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2016
The objective of providing vocational training for the unemployed is to increase their chances of re-employment and human capital accumulation. In comparison to mandatory course assignment by case workers, the awarding of vouchers increases recipients’ freedom to choose between different...
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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed
Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2014
Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...
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Youth unemployment in India : from a European and transitional labour market point of view
Schmid, Günther - 2015
Transitional Labour Markets (TLM) which emphasises dual learning systems as an institutional device both for fair intergenerational …
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The labor market in Germany, 2000–2016 : the transformation of a notoriously rigid labor market into a role model of its own style is essentially complete
Rinne, Ulf; Schneider, Hilmar - 2017
The EU’s largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity in its labor market. Institutions that typically characterize rigid labor markets are effectively balanced by flexibility instruments. Important developments since 2000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011675609