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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
productivity developments and help businesses to weather the COVID-19 shock. Building on the population’s solid education levels by … substantial boost to professional education and training at all levels and ages. This chapter applies the 2018 OECD Jobs Strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304424
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Formation endogène et persistance des inégalités
Fall, Falilou - In: Revue économique 57 (2006) 3, pp. 507-516
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that inherited human capital is a powerful vector of inequality formation and persistence, irrespective of its links with financial wealth endowment. This paper argues that the agents who inherit a low level of human capital bear a greater utility cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578589
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Endogenous Persistent Inequality
Fall, Falilou - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that inherited human capital is a powerful vector of inequality formation and persistence, irrespective of its links with financial wealth endowment. This paper argues that the agents who inherit a low level of human capital bear a greater utility cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059084
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Occupational choice and the dynamics of human capital, inequality and growth
Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with occupation mobility, human capital accumulation and endogenous assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological innovations. We extend recent quantitative general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998090
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Entrepreneurship selection and performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, … - 2004
entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333877
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Intergenerational mobility in educational & occupational attainment: a comparative study of social classes in India
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108028
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Educational and occupational mobility across generations in India: social and regional dimensions
Ray, Jhilam; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Educational and Occupational Mobility is a cherished dream for all groups of people, more so for those who are at the bottom rungs of society. However, it is often seen that upward mobility is concentrated among the socially well-offs leading to divergence in educational attainment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836741
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Intergenerational Mobility in Educational and Occupational Attainment
Majumder, Rajarshi - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 4 (2010) 4, pp. 463-494
as well. This is manifested as low intergenerational mobility in terms of both education and occupation in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781173
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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017
progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794149
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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbühl, Maria - 2017
progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track – entering the second year of uppersecondary education – is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816489