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Towards a Quasi-Market in Reintegration Services: first assessment of the Dutch experience

Struyven, Ludo; Steurs, Geert - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 6 (2003) 2, pp. 331-355

The Netherlands has recently introduced market forces into the labour market reintegration services sector. In this paper, we examine the extent to which the emerging market-oriented Dutch reintegration services sector meets the conditions, established by Le Grand and Bartlett (1993), for the...

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The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more agreeable …

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Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?

Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2010) with detailed local labour market characteristics and exploit the longitudinal component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the...

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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...

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Occupational Choice and Self-Employment: Are They Related?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of...

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The Aims of Lifelong Learning: Age-Related Effects of Training on Wages and Job Security

Lang, Julia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees'...

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Overeducation at a glance. Determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale in Sviluppo … - 2012

This paper provides the first available estimates of the impact of overeducation on wages of AlmaLaurea university graduates. The analysis focuses on jobs held 5 years after the graduation attained in 2005. Overeducation / overskilling are relatively high when compared to those in similarly...

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Performance in Post-compulsory Education: Evidence from Vocational and Academic Tracks

Lopez-Mayan, Cristina - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma … - 2013

This paper investigates the factors in_uencing grade performance in two different high school tracks (academic and vocational), including the effect of the amount of work achieved while studying. The empirical strategy analyzes grade progression through the outcomes, passing, repeating and...

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Quality Specifics of the Human Capital in the Higher Education and Science in the Conditions of Knowledge Economy (theoretical aspects)

Kirova, Alla - In: Economic Studies journal (2012) 2, pp. 90-102

The study of the human capital in the higher education and science is a result of their changed role and significance following the development of new realities of 21st century – knowledge economy, innovation economy, information society, education economy. The latter are treated as a premise...

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Immigration, Occupational Choice and Public Employment

Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2014

This paper investigates the theoretical effects of immigration in an occupational choice model with three sectors: a low-skilled, a high-skilled and a public sector. The originality of our approach is to consider (i) intersectoral mobility of labor and (ii) public employment. We highlight the...

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