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of technical and vocational education in the diffusion of the skills that encouraged the development of small and medium …
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capital of various specialisations. b) Can enterprises rely on the supply of new workers that should be qualified by skills … between the previous two, adjust to labour inputs with specific skills as required by firms? We have found by analysing the … families and schools. -- education ; human capital ; supply and demand for working skills ; employment in industries …
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Foresightful workers can take actions to reduce their exposure to risk in labor markets, but existing evidence on narrow bracketing suggests that individuals might not optimally integrate risk reduction decisions with subsequent labor decisions. In an online labor market, we vary the level of...
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payments since 1977. One of the objectives of the scheme is to assist Indigenous Australians develop work skills which lead to …
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The recent international literature on immigration wage effects has shown contrasting results. Past studies have focussed on the effect of low skilled immigrants on native-born workers in the US, and have yielded results ranging from no impact to negative impacts. This paper, by contrast,...
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skills and use them effectively in the workplace. Special attention needs to be devoted to supporting disadvantaged students … and adults in developing critical skills and reducing the skills imbalances in the labour market, which can contribute to … higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …
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, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …
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emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …
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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...
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In this paper, I quantify the contribution of occupation-specific shocks and skills to unemployment duration and its … cyclical dynamics. I quantify specific skills using microdata on wages, estimating occupational switching cost as a function of … the occupations' difference in skills. The productivity shocks are consistent with job finding rates by occupation. For …
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