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Les travailleurs bénéficient de performances différentes sur le marché du travail en fonction de leur âge : le taux d'emploi exhibe une trajectoire en cloche en fonction de l'âge, tandis que le taux de chômage est continuellement décroissant. Au cours des dernières décennies, le taux...
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Beyond its negative impact on the employment rate of elder workers, we show in this paper that a short distance to the retirement age explains also the low investment in training. This supports the policies enlarging the retirement age: an increase of the incentive to delay the retirement age...
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L’alphabétisme est capital pour l’amélioration de toute société. Tout un chacun ne peut participer entièrement au discours social et politique, et aura sans doute une position inférieure en société, s’il ne possède pas l’alphabétisme de base lui permettant d’atteindre ses...
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The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...
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We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...
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This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in the U.S. Early analyses of skill-related differences compared the earnings of workers across occupations. The general consensus of these investigations was that skill premiums...
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literacy and numeracy skills, and the economic returns to these skills, for Canadian immigrants and non-immigrants. The novelty … and third-generation Canadians. Our results show that no immigrant group performs as well on literacy and numeracy tests … across all quantiles. Finally, we find that the labour market rewards literacy or numeracy skills equally for immigrants and …
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The digital divide in general, and between women and men in particular, is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, and...
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collection framework to measure an internationally accepted digital literacy index. Such an index must be defined by an agile … definition of digital literacy responsive to the fluid nature of the digital economy. The paper also explores the extent to which …
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collection framework to measure an internationally accepted digital literacy index. Such an index requires an agile definition of … digital literacy, responsive to the fluid nature of the digital economy. The paper also explores the extent to which a G20 …
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