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This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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This paper uses longitudinal data of more than 13,000 firms to analyze the effects of on-the-job training on firm level productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes firms more productive. On-the-job training...
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reallocation of different workers across tasks and into employment. This ensures that there nearly always exists some combination … of task-specific demand shocks that induce aggregate employment and wages to negatively comove even in a frictionless … show that a frictionless model with realistic heterogeneity can replicate the mean wage increase and employment collapse of …
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This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment …
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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application for occupational recognition. Our findings show substantial employment and wage gains from occupational recognition …. After three years, the full recognition of immigrants’ foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24 … increase in employment is largely driven by a higher propensity to work in regulated occupations. Relating our findings to the …
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …
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