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Town and city jobs : job contents, skills and city size
Kok, Suzanne - 2012 - Incomplete and draft version
Large metropolitan regions with pollution, congestion and high rents remain the supernatural economic places. The mystery of what exactly raises productivity in large cities continues. Going back to the famous pin factory of Adam Smith, the answer might be that city workers are able to...
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Current trends in E-learning development
Zakota, Zoltan - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 207-720
and training, including non-formal and lifelong extensions. The aim of my study is to present the current trends in this …
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Regional labour markets in Brazil : the role of skills and agglomeration economies
Barufi, Ana Maria Bonomi - 2014
sectorial and municipal fixed effects. Moreover, identifying skills according to the occupational position of the individuals in …
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Heterogeneous firms and substitution by tasks : the productivity effect of migrants : paper prepared for the ERSA Congress 21- 25 August 2012, Bratislava
Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - 2012
Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new topic is to focus on the firm level by estimating...
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Study on continuing vocational training for rural activities
Ursu, Ana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 108-115). 2023
The study aims to analyze the modalities of vocational training in rural areas in order to identify systematic contents … that are relevant to define the perception of the general role of continuing vocational training in the economic and social … development of rural areas, the functions of continuing vocational training in the complex process of transformation of the agri …
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Do cross-border commuters suffer from education-job mismatch?
Huber, Peter - 2011
The migration literature shows that cross-border skill transfer is associated with a risk of increased job-education mismatch. This paper examines whether the problems of job-education mismatch often found among migrants also apply to cross-border commuters and compares cross-border commuters to...
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An intensive, school-based learning camp targeting academic and non-cognitive skills evaluated in a randomized trial
Hvidman, Charlotte; Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia; … - 2021
. Next to training pupils in Danish and mathematics, the main variant targets non-cognitive skills, while the alternative …-cognitive skills. Further, we find no evidence that training of non-cognitive skills affects academic outcomes. These results provide a … perspective on recent evidence regarding the effects of training non-cognitive skills in schools - by running such an intervention …
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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...
Orrù, Enrico - 2012
This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...
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Compulsory schooling and geographic distribution on voluntary education
Filiztekin, Alpay; Karahasan, Burhan Can - 2015
Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...
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The impact of minimum wages on teenagers' educational expectations
Anger, Silke; Heß, Pascal; Kunaschk, Max - 2019
We study the effect of the introduction of the German statutory minimum wage law in 2015 on teenagers' educational expectations. We focus on low-skilled students, the group most likely to be affected by the minimum wage after entering the labor market. Theoretical predictions of the effect of...
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