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Borghans, L.; Weel, B. ter - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2001

Computer use is mainly associated with skilled, high-wage workers. Furthermore, the introduction of computers leads to upgrading of skill requirements. This suggests that the computer requires certain skills to take full advantage of its possibilities. Empirical findings, however, suggest that...

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The Delimitation and Coherence of Functional and Administrative Regions

Frank, Cörvers; Hensen M.; Bongaerts D. - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2006

The aim of this paper is to examine the coherence between and within functional as well as administrative regions in a labour market context. The larger the coherence of the local labour markets within the delimited regions, the larger the heterogeneity between the delimited regions is expected...

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The Occupational Structure of Further and Higher Education in Ireland and the Netherlands

Borghans, L.; Hughes, G.; Smits, W. - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 1997

Although most types of education give access to a range of occupations, the educational background determines to a … countries, there is a question about the specific role of each type of education in a country and the influence of the structure … of the educational system as a whole on the relationship between education and the labour market. In this paper a …

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The Relation between the Wage, Job-related Training and the Quality of the Match between Occupations and the Types of Education

Eijs, P. van; Heijke, H. - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 1996

objective mismatch measure, which enables to investigate the quality of the match between occupations and types of education and … to find that particular type of education which has a comparative advantage in the occupation concerned. The result is a …

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What affects lifelong learning of scientists and engineers?

de, Grip Andries; Wendy, Smits - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2009

This paper greatly enriches the discussion on the determinants of lifelong learning of scientists and engineers (S&Es). In our analysis, which is based on a survey among S&Es in the Netherlands, we take account of both formal training and different modes of informal learning. We find that S&Es...

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Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure

Lex, Borghans; ter, Weel Bas - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2008

We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization ofthe labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoptionpatterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empiricalmicro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro studies...

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Occupation Specific or Generic Skills? Conflicting Interests of Firms and Apprentices

Smits, W - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2002

Firms and apprentices have conflicting interests with respect to the content of training programmes. On the basis of a model for the investment decision in occupation-specific and generic training, I will show that, in the case of imperfect competition, firms are not only unwilling to pay for...

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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Labor

Dupuy, Arnaud; Marey, Philip - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2005

Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affect the curvature of...

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Measuring Competences in School-leaver Surveys

Loo, J. van; Semeijn, J. - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2001

labour market performance is no longer dependent on just the individual’s initial education, since todays labour market …

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People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter; Weinberg, Bruce - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2005

Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...

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