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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 22, pp. 1-26

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve training specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general schooling at the upper secondary level. This offers a unique opportunity to assess the theoretically ambiguous long-term relative...

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Wage returns to mid-career investments in job training through employer supported course enrollment : evidence for Canada

Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose; Voia, Marcel-Christian; Worswick, … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

wages. The estimated average treatment effects on the treated range from 5.5 to 7.2 percent for men and 7.1 to 9.0 for women …

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Educational mismatch and wages in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. - 1999

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...

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Non-formal education, overeducation and wages

Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl - In: Revista de economía aplicada : publicación cuatrimestral 21 (2013) 61, pp. 5-28

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The aims of lifelong learning : age-related effects of training on wages and job security

Lang, Julia - 2012

This paper reports the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different … by an increase in wages, whereas older employees' worries about losing their job are reduced. This observation can also … decreasing marginal returns to training with respect to job security. -- Training ; Wages ; Job security …

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Heterogeneous wage effects of apprenticeship training

Göggel, Kathrin; Zwick, Thomas - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 3, pp. 756-779

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The effects of an apprenticeship program on wages and employability of youths in Brazil

Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; … - In: Youth turnover in Brazil : job and worker flows and an …, (pp. 34-68). 2014

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the Apprenticeship program (Lei do Aprendiz) that has been adopted in a large scale since 2000 in Brazil. This is a youth-targeted ALMP, which concedes payroll subsidies to firms that hire and train young workers under special temporary contracts aiming...

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The wage premium of foreign education : new evidence from Australia

Tani, Massimiliano; Heaton, Christopher; Chan, Gavin - In: The Australian economic review 46 (2013) 4, pp. 395-404

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The value of skills

Green, Francis - 1998

Many commentators have argued that "key skills" are becoming more important in modern workplaces. This paper draws on a survey that uses a methodology based on job analysis to measure skills at work, and estimates their implicit prices using a hedonic wage equation. The main new findings are...

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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups? : the case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …

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