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Worker occupational skills and unemployment duration : a competing-risks econometric approach

Elroukh, Ahmed W. - In: International journal of computational economics and … 14 (2024) 3, pp. 306-336

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Worker Occupational Skills and Unemployment Duration

Elroukh, Ahmed W. - 2019

This paper explains differences in unemployment duration among displaced workers by differences in their skills, using …

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Education, skills, and duration of unemployment in Ghana

Yirenkyi, Ebenezer Gyan; Debrah, Godwin; Adanu, Kwami; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-12

, has been labelled as the cause of rising unemployment and prolonged unemployment duration in Ghana. This paper presents … 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 …

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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? : firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation

Dostie, Benoît - 2015

Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the majority of costs for training, shouldn't they also benefit? Empirical evidence shows that this is in fact the case. Firm-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and...

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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia

Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training programs of enterprises. Differences between small,...

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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality

Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020

India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th Plan (2007012). One dimension of this change was the...

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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? : firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation

Dostie, Benoît - 2020

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Demand-driven training and job turnover : the effects of Brazil's Pronate-MDIC at firm and worker level

Quintana, Rodrigo E.; Cravo, Túlio - 2019

This paper explores for the first time the impact of a demand-driven training program on labor turnover at both firm and worker level. Launched in 2014 by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC in Portuguese), Pronatec-MDIC allows firms to demand courses which some of their...

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The economic implications of training for firm performance

Martins, Pedro S. - 2022

This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...

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Sector specificity of training

Williams, Nicolas - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 31, pp. 3669-3683

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