for selection bias and sorting on gains. We find that training participation increases yearly earnings and reduces the … risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

for selection bias and sorting on gains. We find that training participation increases yearly earnings and reduces the … risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

Unemployment and under-employment represented $25.8 billion in annual wages not earned in Los Angeles County, $28 … where one or more breadwinners are under-employed. Unemployment and under-employment rates in LA peaked at the end of 2010 … wages offered for those jobs. Four industries with a strong presence in Los Angeles that pay sustaining wages and have the …

work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment - the "wage curve". … enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the …

dynamic treatment effects and mediation analyses, we find PBD to affect wages even for workers who do not change unemployment …Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and …