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Competency management, coordination and responsibility in Slovenia
Zupančič, Magda - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 66 (2020) 3, pp. 36-47
The purpose of this article is to highlight the importance of investments into competencies. The identification of … competencies should belong to the strategic goals of any socially responsible society. The right competencies are a crucial … well as to ensure lifelong productive and inclusive individuals. Relevant skills and competencies should respond to labour …
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Industry 4.0 and current competencies
Beke, Eva; Horvath, Richard; Takacs-Gyorgy, Katalin - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 66 (2020) 4, pp. 63-70
how these competencies helping them to apply for the right position in the job market. Although the competence list showed …-emotional skills in the coming years. These new competencies will make the new generation of employees' company goals. This article … presents the results of the recent research about modern-day competencies to evaluate what exactly relevant companies …
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What is happening to middle skill workers?
Green, Andrew S. - 2019
This report asks what is happening to middle-skill workers. Driven by mega trends such as automation, ageing and offshoring, the share of jobs whose wages placed them firmly in the middle of the wage distribution has been declining. Termed job polarisation, economists have observed the decline...
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Substitution between groups of highly-educated, foreign-born, H-1B workers
Sparber, Chad - 2018
Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals' US educational experience, H-1B work history, and employer type. Caps are met quickly in most but not all years. This paper exploits these...
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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
Indian policymakers - like most of their counterparts across the developing and developed world - have been concerned with the employability of their working-age populations in particular, for obvious economic and sociopolitical reasons. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as...
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy? : basic skills in literacy and numeracy are essential for success in the labor market
Vignoles, Anna - 2016
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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Leadership experiences, labor market entry, and early career trajectories
Lundin, Martin; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Zetterberg, Pär - 2016
We study how leadership experiences before labor market entry affect subsequent labor market performance, using a regression discontinuity design to isolate the causal effects. The design is applied to elections of representatives at Swedish student union (SU) councils. Archive data on winning...
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Much ado about nothing? : the wage effect of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2016
This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph.D. holders. We analyze data collected in 2009 by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) through a large cross-sectional survey of Ph.D. recipients that allowed us...
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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills : an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2022
The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...
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