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Why Do Firms Train? Empirical Evidence on the First Labour Market Outcomes of Graduated Apprentices

Euwals, Rob; Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper contributes to the ongoing debate as to why firms are willing to invest in such training even though many apprentices will leave the training firm soon after completion of the...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …

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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

Zoghi, Cindy; Levenson, Alec; Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job attributes: multitasking, discretion, skills, and...

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Is Training More Frequent When Wage Compression Is Higher? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

When labor markets are imperfectly competitive, firms may be willing to finance general training if the wage structure is compressed, that is, if the increase of productivity after training is greater than the increase in pay. We propose a novel way of testing this proposition, which exploits...

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Why Are the Returns to Education Higher for Entrepreneurs than for Employees?

Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By … fewer (organizational) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. …

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The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why Are They Lower than in the United States?)

Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

to seniority are small, and for some education groups are close to zero. The specification here is the same as that used …

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Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004

Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

1980s Indian premium is mainly due to higher returns to education and experience, a combination of price and endowment … by the observed convergence in returns to education; the endowment effect is driven by faster increase in education …

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Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel’s censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and...

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Occupational Choice Across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Germany, analyzes how individual men and women access jobs given their family background, and investigates why men and women … occupational choice, and that individuals with more education choose higher ranking jobs. The role of experience is important for … is more influenced by their mother’s education and not by their fathers’ occupation. …

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Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults

Tekin, Erdal; Markowitz, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the link between suicidal behaviors and labor market productivity of young adults in the United States. Using data from the National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we estimate the effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the...

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