Although economists acknowledge that various indicators of educational attainment (e.g., highest grade completed, credentials earned) might serve as signals of a worker’s productivity, the practical importance of education-based signaling is not clear. In this paper we estimate the signaling...

Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The “treatment” is generally represented by a binary variable equal to one if participation in the program occurs, and equal to zero if no...

One of the key steps in the process of labour force recruitment is drafting and advertising vacancies. Although today most of the recruitment process is conducted on the Internet, the supplements and pages devoted to economic information of the mainstream newspapers contain ads especially for...

A relatively low tertiary education wage premium and a large occupational mismatch are two salient features of the Spanish labor market that distinguish it with respect to the labor markets in other developed countries. In this paper we provide an equilibrium model of the labor market with...

This paper uses data from a rich UK birth cohort to estimate the differences in cognitive and non-cognitive skills between children born at the start and end of the academic year. It builds on the previous literature on this topic in England by using a more robust regression discontinuity design...

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the start of the academic year. Previous research shows that the difference is most pronounced early in pupils’ school lives, but remains evident and statistically significant...

This  paper  empirically  examines  the  impact  of temporary agency  work  strategies on firm  performance  using  panel  data   from  German   establishments.  Thereby,  special attention is devoted  to  the  question,  whether  there  are  performance differences ...

We sketch a model that shows how skill-biased technological changemay reverse the classic Balassa-Samuelson effect, leading to a negativerelationship between the productivity in the tradable sector andthe real exchange rate. In a small open economy, export goods areproduced with capital,...

Este artículo es un estudio de los aspectos que deben ser considerados dentro de las organizaciones inteligentes cuyo enfoque se centra en el aprendizaje constante (tanto individual como organizacional) como una estrategia para desarrollar las competencias que les permitan enfrentar el entorno...

La investigación identificó la realidad de la capacitación y sus necesidades en los gerentes de producción del sector industrial de calzado, cuero y sus manufacturas en el área metropolitana de Cúcuta. El estudio se abordó mediante la aplicación de un cuestionario validado y confiable...