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Recruitment and retention incentives in health labour markets: an analysis of participation in NHS Scotland following Dental Vocational
Chalkley, Martin; Tilley, Colin; Rennie, J. S. - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2008
This paper uses a unique individual level administrative data set to analyse the participation of health professionals …-training participation. We nd there is signi cant persistence in these data and are able to show that the persistence arises from state … participation rates. We apply this empirical framework to assess the accuracy of predictions for workforce forecasting, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550823
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Assessing the impact of education and marriage on labor market exit decisions of women
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2010
During the late 1990s, the convergence of women's labor force participation rates to men's rates came to a halt. This … likely the driving force behind the aggregate changes seen in labor force participation. Rather, changes in exit rates among … force participation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292337
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Educational reform, ability and family background
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2004
In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms in other European countries including the UK, consisted of increasing compulsor schooling,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293084
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294700
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Unemployment Duration and the Length of Entitlement Periods for Unemployment Benefits: Do the IAB Employment Subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel Yield the Same Results?
Biewen, Martin; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297415
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297429
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Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005
Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297489
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Osikominu, Aderonke; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Völter, Robert - 2006
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297547
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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2007
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methods in a dynamic, multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297925
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Völter, Robert; Osikominu, Aderonke; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2007
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297966