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This study provides the first evidence that air pollution causes economy-wide reductions in market economic activity based on data for Europe. The analysis combines satellite-based measures of air pollution with statistics on regional economic activity at the NUTS-3 level throughout the European...
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policies; ii) education and skills; to ensure adequate skills for accessing good quality jobs; and iii) urban environments …
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people in education, is also linked to the overall decline in youth unemployment. Finally, as regards education, the results … indicate that the number of years of education, the number of young people with vocational training and, to a lesser extent … a well-functioning education system and labour market institutions that do not introduce distortions into the labour …
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Swiss women are now as well educated as their male counterparts. However, progress remains to be made in the job market where both the supply and price of female labour are below that of men. While the participation rate for women is high and rising, it is offset by a heavy incidence of...
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education system is a long-term mission and involves raising its pedagogical strength and orientation towards professional needs …
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This paper studies the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. The paper show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker’s earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The...
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This paper proposes and estimates a model of demand for and supply of graduations in tertiary education, which is then … to education have remained high in spite of rising educational attainment levels, the paper accords a great deal of … future scenarios of demand for tertiary education, pointing to increases between 30 and 60 per cent across OECD countries …
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human capital and productivity improvements. While educational attainment is very high, the education system needs to be … education are unequally distributed. Adequate funding for education institutions is not assured everywhere while inefficiencies …
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Regional inequality in Slovakia is among the highest in the OECD and is increasing. The main reason for regional disparity is the combination of low economic growth and job creation in the eastern and central part of the country and insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by...
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tertiary education, especially for students with disadvantaged backgrounds. Digitalisation holds the promise of large gains in …
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