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Sloane, P.J.; Theodossiou, I. - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 130-149

Examines the extent of low pay in Britain, first by estimating a Lorenz curve and, second, by using a logistic regression approach. Low pay is defined in terms of the first three deciles of the income distribution for all workers. The data are taken from the 1986 Social and Economic Life Survey...

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Market Failure, Institutional Structure and Skill‐formation

McNabb, Robert; Whitfield, Keith - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 5, pp. 5-15

Examines the link between the institutional structure of the market for training and economic performance. Suggests that the market for training has a major potential for failure and that institutional structures are eeded to mitigate this. Outlines the main structures which have been developed...

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Vocational Training and Productivity Performance: An Anglo‐Dutch Comparison

Mason, Geoff; van Ark, Bart - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 5, pp. 55-69

‐time vocational education in The Netherlands is said to enable Dutch employers to carry out further training to technician and craft …

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Overview: World Bank policy research on vocational education and training

Middleton, John; Ziderman, Adrian - In: International Journal of Manpower 18 (1997) 1/2, pp. 6-28

education and training are available in published form, the process through which these publications are developed is known only …

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Improving training quality in developing countries

Herschbach, Dennis R. - In: International Journal of Manpower 18 (1997) 1/2, pp. 90-118

and efficiency of vocational education and training (VET) in developing countries. Centres on a number of relevant factors …

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Planning for vocational education, training and employment: a minimalist approach

Godfrey, Martin - In: International Journal of Manpower 18 (1997) 1/2, pp. 206-227

This paper addresses the scope and content of planning for vocational education, training and employment in developing …

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Europe: a labour surplus economy?

Dearden, Stephen J.H. - In: International Journal of Manpower 19 (1998) 5, pp. 331-342

education and training, and the emergence of a permanent labour surplus economy. …

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The labour market in Switzerland: the end of a special case?

Flückiger, Yves - In: International Journal of Manpower 19 (1998) 6, pp. 369-395

This paper presents a general survey of the Swiss economy. It emphasises the various factors that have been put forward to explain the very low unemployment rate recorded in Switzerland up to the beginning of the 1990s. It also analyses the factors which may be held responsible for the dramatic...

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Evidence on the education profile and the assimilation of immigrants in Switzerland

de Coulon, Augustin - In: International Journal of Manpower 19 (1998) 7, pp. 533-544

institutional and historical background is first presented, after which we analyse the education profile of the immigrants through … dummies. The main results are that the assimilation process is closely connected with the education profile of the immigrants …

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Skilling the unskilled – a question of incentives?

Wolter, Stefan C.; Weber, Bernhard A. - In: International Journal of Manpower 20 (1999) 3/4, pp. 254-271

relying on massive continuous education and retraining programmes as the most efficient solution to this problem needs to be … their own continuous education needs. The reasons for this inactivity at the individual level may well lie in the lack of … education‐related differences in wages being very slight. …

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