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between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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(3), 1992). I look into wage growth between jobs, tenure and wage growth on the job to infer about the initial certainty about …-spatial human capital is matched better than in local job matches. I expect the selectivity to drive up wage growth between jobs …, tenure and wage growth on the job. Not possessing local knowledge, on the other hand, is expected to drive them all down. A …
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considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special … an important message to the EU employment policy debate that currently revolves around the skill mismatch in general and …
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found to be associated with 3.5% higher wages, on top of the wage returns of non-formal training which amount to about 11 …
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thousands of people 15 years or over. The Human capital is defined by the Employment in Technology and Knowledge …
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-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …
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The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...
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This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the systematic variations between central and non-central retail markets, as well as the systematic variations across different types of retailing activities are investigated. The...
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OECD countries and their regions are ageing fast. In principle, the negative impact of ageing on the growth rate of per capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth required to maintain per capita GDP levels constant...
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