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Enhancing employability and skills to meet labour market needs in Italy
Garda, Paula - 2017
The various deficiencies of the labour market and the educational system have resulted in high unemployment, low labour force participation, low skills levels and high skill mismatch. Job creation is key to tackling the high unemployment rates, especially for the young and long-term unemployed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700553
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Does more general education reduce the risk of future unemployment? : evidence from labor market experiences during the Great Recession
Hall, Caroline King Barnard - 2013
This paper investigates whether more general education reduces the risk of future unemployment by examining individuals' labor market experiences during the "Great Recession" (2008-2010). To estimate the causal impact of differences in educational content, I exploit a reform in Sweden in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009789558
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The educational system – causing both skills shortages and low youth labour participation?
Malm Lindberg, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2015
The educational system is perhaps the most important feature for labour market entry. During the last decades huge investments have been made at different levels in this system, the Knowledge lift and a doubling of the number of students in tertiary education are examples, but what are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250940
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080047
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080120
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The Effect of Education on Unemployment Duration
Altindag, Duha Tore - 2019
This paper investigates the role of education in the job search process of the young unemployed workers. Exploiting the variation in education induced by a reform that caused a dramatic increase in the exposed cohorts' educational attainment, and using data obtained from administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863378
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Does slack influence public and private labour market interactions?
Lamo, Ana; Moral-Benito, Enrique; Pérez, Javier J.
Este trabajo analiza el impacto del empleo y de los salarios públicos sobre el mercado de trabajo. En particular … influencia de los salarios públicos en el sector privado. Además, observamos que, en momentos de crisis económica, el ajuste … contrario sucede en el área del euro. Conjeturamos que las diferencias en el grado de rigidez de los salarios y la tasa de paro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530500
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413337
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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414731