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Financing constraints and employers' investment in training
Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2020
affect employers' decisions to invest in employee training. It combines survey data on investment activities with … this index reduces investment in training as a share of fixed assets by 2.9 to 4.5 percent and investment in training per … employee by 1.8 to 2.5 percent. The paper documents that lower investment in training reduces productivity, and show that firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201498
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Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs : firm-level evidence from Estonia
Mosiashvili, Natia; Pareliussen, Jon - 2020
With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421213
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Making employment more inclusive in the Netherlands
Baker, Mark; Gielens, Lindy - 2018
The Dutch labour market has recovered and the unemployment rate has been converging towards pre-crisis levels. Non-standard forms of work have expanded with a strong trend towards self-employment and an increased reliance on temporary contracts. These developments may reflect a preference of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995795
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Improving employment prospects for young workers in Spain
Wölfl, Anita - 2013
The unemployment rate among young people has reached painfully high levels, in particular among those young people with low levels of education. There are two crucial policy priorities to improve employment prospects for youth in Spain. First, in the very short term, there is need for quick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767758
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Matching skills and jobs in Estonia
Demmou, Lilas - 2012
-to-job transition, improving the cooperation with employers to improve vocational training programmes, stepping up targeting life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696433
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Investing efficiently in education and active labour market policies in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline - 2013
In Slovakia, educational outcomes are below the OECD average and are too dependent on the socioeconomic background of students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active labour market policies are very low by international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711243
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus (contributor);  … - European System of Central Banks / Monetary Policy … - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
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Environmental integrity and doing business in Zimbabwe : challenges and engagement of sustainable enterprises
De Gobbi, Maria Sabrina - 2020
Zimbabwe has a wealth of natural resources and is rich in biodiversity. The national Government is trying to achieve private sector led economic growth and the challenge to pursue both economic development and sound environmental management at the same time appears clear. The objective of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220131
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Education as self-fulfilment and self-satisfaction
Donlevy, Victoria; Driel, Barry van; Hoareau McGrath, … - 2019
Key drivers of contemporary rapid changes in the educational realm relate to ongoing technological, demographic, economic and social developments in modern European societies. These developments are having an impact on education throughout the lifespan, including a shift to a focus on new types...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114077
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Labour market flexibility in the Netherlands : the role of contracts and self-employment
Cörvers, Frank; Euwals, Rob; Grip, Andries de - 2011
overeducated for the work they do (chapter 4), that temporary workers receive less employer-funded training (chapter 5), that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345493