. Educational outcomes could be improved through raising the attractiveness of the teacher profession, improving teacher education …

literacy and the likelihood of participating in adult education is also explored. Lower employment prospects for immigrants are … well explained by lower literacy proficiency, lower education and less favourable socio-economic backgrounds. This Working …

Swedish labor market has adopted well to technological change, as it exhibits stable employment rates and steady wage growth …

’s innovation development. This paper examines the effects of the liberalization of migration on the skill composition of immigrants … immigrants’ education levels and probability of becoming an inventor, comparing immigrants from the EU-15 with those from other … migration costs associated with the EEA mainly stimulated migration from the lower end of the education distribution. …

For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective … on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time … period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the evolution of older workers' employment in Belgium and its neighboring …

I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the … only certified because a worker's GP has a high propensity to certify sick leaves - decreases employment probabilities …: Whenever medically justifiable, it may be beneficial to certify shorter sick leaves in order to protect employment status of …