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137 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Continuous Training in Germany
Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I analyze the incidence, financing, and returns to workplace training in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2001, 14 (3), 523-548)
J24 J31
136 Michael Bräuninger
Markus Pannenberg
Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model
Does a country’s level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2002, 19 (1), 105-120)
O40 O57 E24
135 Alan Barrett
Philip J. O'Connell
Is There a Wage Premium for Returning Irish Migrants?
Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterised by emigration to one where population inflows have become an important issue. This paper contains ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2001, 32(1), 1-21)
J61
134 Adriana Kugler
Gilles Saint-Paul
Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-term Unemployment
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22(3), 553-584.)
E24 J41 J63 J64 J65 J71
132 Robert A. Hart
Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38 (4), 478-502)
E24 J31 N34
131 Barry R. Chiswick
Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal ...
(published in: Brettel, C./J. Hollifield (eds.), Migration Theory, New York 2000, 61-76 / 2nd ed., 2008, 63-82)
J61 J15 J24 J31
130 Giorgio Brunello
Simona Lorena Comi
Claudio Lucifora
The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence
The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross ...
(published in: Harmon, C./I. Walker/N. Westergard-Nielsen (eds.), The Returns to Education in Europe, Edward Elgar, 2001)
I21 I22 J24 J31
129 Barry R. Chiswick
Michael E. Hurst
The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants
This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and in comparison with the native born. The empirical analysis uses microdata from ...
(published in: Bassi, L. J./Woodbury, S. A. (eds.), Long-Term Unemployment and Reemployment Policies (Research in Employment Policy, V. 2), Stamford, Conn. (2000), 87-115.)
J61
128 Orley Ashenfelter
David Ashmore
Olivier Deschenes
Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Evidence From Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States
In this paper we report the results of the only field test of which we are aware that uses randomized trials to measure whether stricter enforcement and verification of work search behavior alone ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125 (1-2), 53-75)
C93 J65
126 Josef Fersterer
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Smoking, Discount Rates, and Returns to Education
Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (6), 561-566)
J31 I22
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