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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2016
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514535
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using microeconometric methods. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. Chapter 2 uses a randomised field experiment among German human resource managers to evaluate which skill signals such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971651
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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses
Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214251
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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but prolonged leave may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2022
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413198
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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
-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and increased innovation, both of which benefit the firm. Training can also be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430770
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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data
Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript
This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186787
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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
-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and increased innovation, both of which benefit the firm. Training can also be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296348
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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis
Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016
, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595984
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital with strong empirical links to productivity
Botev, Jarmila; Égert, Balázs; Smidova, Zuzana; … - 2019
measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …
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