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The effect of increased general education in vocational schools : evidence from a Hungarian vocational school reform
Ghysels, Joris; Hermann, Zoltán; Rud, Iryna; Somers, … - 2017
estimate the effect of the reform on educational attainment, employment and wages in a comparative interrupted time series … men's wages, while not affected their employment. For women we found a positive employment effect, while wages have …This paper aims at the evaluation of the reform of vocational education introduced in 1998 in Hungary. The reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687248
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Young adults and labor markets in Africa
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Smurra, Andrea; … - 2021
compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803752
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Improving employment and earnings in 21st century labor markets : an introduction
Groshen, Erica L.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2019
What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138373
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Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Bratti, Massimilano; Ghirelli, Corinna; Havari, Enkelejda; … - 2018
, employment or training (NEETs). To estimate the causal effect of participating in the programme on the employment outcomes, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924974
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Raising job quality and worker skills in the US : creating more effective education and workforce development systems in states
Holzer, Harry J. - 2012
To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009546528
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Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Bratti, Massimiliano; Ghirelli, Corinna; Havari, Enkelejda - 2018
, employment or training (NEETs). To estimate the causal effect of participating in the programme on the employment outcomes, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931835
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Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction
Groshen, Erica L.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2019
What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179969
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Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Smurra, Andrea; … - 2021
compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882558
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The employment effects of collective bargaining
Fanfani, Bernardo - 2020
This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms' pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609091
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Firing Costs and Flexibility: Evidence from Firms' Employment Responses to Shocks in India
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Chari, A. V.; Sharma, Siddharth - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 3, pp. 725-740
A key prediction of dynamic labor demand models is that firing restrictions attenuate firms' employment responses to … over time. Consistent with the theory, we find that industrial employment is more sensitive to shocks where labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011009904