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continuing vocational training (CVT) on employment, the risk of unemployment, and wages. To control for education, profession and … reemployed and higher chances to stay into an existing employment. The results also indicate that repeated short activities in … CVT are more beneficial then long activities typically carried out by the German employment agency during the period of …
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We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …
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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in …
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Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand.
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The aim of this paper is to examine the issues of gender disparities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region, with a special focus given to countries covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)1. The analysis is conducted in several dimensions: labour participation,...
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There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most … paper tries to fill in this gap by looking at three dimensions of the relationship between innovations and employment in … Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The …
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Interest in the topic of well-being has burgeoned in recent years as the weaknesses of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita as a proxy for well-being have become more apparent. At the same time, the global economy has experienced a productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is...
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information known to politicians at the time of decision making - and the effect of privatization on employment, efficiency and … politicians expected privatization to increase the employment of the privatizable group by 7 - 10 percent, and to decrease it in … decisions. Our study suggests that employment concerns played the key role in selecting firms for privatization, even if …
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We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …
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foreign direct investment in Central Europe may have helped the relatively favourable employment and earnings record of the … production. Employment and wages diverged considerably within the German automobile industry. Relative to skilled workers, the …
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