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Bridging the digital divide: Measuring digital literacy
Chetty, Krish; Qigui, Liu; Gcora, Nozibele; Josie, Jaya; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-23, pp. 1-20
To promote digital transformation, equal emphasis needs to be placed on digital skills development as to infrastructure development. Integral to investment in digital skills development is the subsequent management and evaluation of digital training programmes. This paper assesses mechanisms to...
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Bridging the digital divide in the G20: Skills for the new age
Chetty, Krish; Aneja, Urvashi; Mishra, Vidisha; Gcora, … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-24, pp. 1-20
inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and …
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A cross-country study of skills and unemployment flows
Stijepic, Damir - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-30
between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …
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Youth bulges and youth unemployment
Lam, David - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
The youth population bulge is often mentioned in discussions of youth unemployment and unrest in developing countries … unemployment is mixed. It should not be assumed that declines in the relative size of the youth population will translate into … falling youth unemployment in coming decades without further policy measures to improve the youth labor market. …
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Veränderungen in betrieblichen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung
Krause, Ina; Oertel, Simon; Walgenbach, Peter - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 26 (2012) 4, pp. 346-375
Aufbauend auf der These einer zunehmenden Vermarktlichung von Beschäftigungsverhältnissen und des Endes der Organisationsgesellschaft von Davis (2009a, 2009b) untersuchen wir den Wandel der Industrienation Deutschland zur Dienstleistungs- und Wissensgesellschaft und fragen, ob mit diesem...
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Zu wenig qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte für praktische Tätigkeiten
Brenke, Karl - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 9, pp. 677-679
All western countries are faced with the problem of a low birth rate and an increasingly aging population. The burden of old age requires accelerated productivity growth. Productivity growth is declining, however. In Germany, it has come to a standstill. At the same time, there is an increasing...
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Human capital quality and the immigrant wage gap
Coulombe, Serge; Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
We propose a new methodology for analyzing determinants of the wage gap between immigrants and natives. A Mincerian regression framework is extended to include GDP per capita in an immigrant's country of birth as a proxy for the quality of schooling and work experience acquired in that country....
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Locus of control and the labor market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
This paper reviews the role of locus of control in the labor market. I begin with a discussion of the conceptual origins of locus of control, including its relationship to related concepts such as self-efficacy, motivation, and self-control. The relationship between locus of control and labor...
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The boom in university graduates and the risk of underemployment
Yamada, Gustavo - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
-quality university programs, and job–education mismatches. More university graduates in this context could exacerbate unemployment …
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Weiterbildung in der Zeitarbeit: Einflussfaktoren und Erfolg
Bouncken, Ricarda B.; Fischer, Hajo; Lehmann, Christian - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 26 (2012) 2, pp. 115-142
Zeitarbeit hat sich für die deutsche Wirtschaft zu einem wichtigen Flexibilisierungsinstrument entwickelt. Dem zunehmenden Mangel an neuen, qualifizierten Zeitarbeitnehmern kann auch in der Zeitarbeit durch die Qualifizierung bestehender Mitarbeiter begegnet werden. Auch wenn Weiterbildung oft...
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