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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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10302
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Maria
Ferreira Sequeda
Annemarie
Künn-Nelen
Andries
de Grip
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Work-Related Learning and Skill Development in Europe: Does Initial Skill Mismatch Matter?
This paper provides more insight into the relevance of the assumption of human capital theory that the productivity of job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse ...
(published in: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Pouliakas. Giovanni Russo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017, 345 - 407)
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J24, M53
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10301
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Kari
P
Hadjivassiliou
Arianna
Tassinari
Werner
Eichhorst
Florian
Wozny
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Assessing the Performance of School-to-Work Transition Regimes in the EU
The Great Recession that has engulfed Europe since 2008 has had a profound impact on the process of young people's school-to-work (STW) transition. Countries' institutional configurations ...
(revised version published as 'How Does the Performance of School-to-Work Transition Regimes Vary in the European Union?' in: Jacqueline O'Reilly et al. (eds.) Youth Labor in Transition: Inequalities, Mobility, and Policies in Europe, Oxford, 2018, Chapter 3 )
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I2, J23, J24
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10298
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Franziska
Hampf
Ludger
Woessmann
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Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC
It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2017, 63 (3), 255-269)
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J24, J64, I20
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10297
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Saul
Estrin
Adeline
Pelletier
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Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102, )
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L1, L51, O10
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10296
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Jane
Leer
Florencia
López Bóo
Ana
Perez Expósito
Christine
Powell
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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to ...
(published as 'Assessing the quality of home visit parenting programs in Latin America and the Caribbean' in: Early Child Development and Care, 2019, 189 (13), 2183 - 2196)
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J13, H53, H75, I38
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10295
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Liqiu
Zhao
Fei
Wang
Zhong
Zhao
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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether ...
(revised version published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 65, 101575)
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F14, F16
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10293
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Francesco
Devicienti
Bernardo
Fanfani
Agata
Maida
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Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy
In this paper we study the evolution of the Italian wage inequality, and of its determinants, using two decades of matched employer-employee data covering the entire population of private-sector ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 377-407)
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J00, J5, J31, J40
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10292
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Francesco
Devicienti
Alessandro
Manello
Davide
Vannoni
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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts
This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing ...
(published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 260 (3), 1129 - 1141)
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J51, D22, D24, C24, C44
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10291
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Nicolás
Salamanca
Jan
Feld
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A Short Note on Discrimination and Favoritism in the Labor Market
We extend Becker's model of discrimination by allowing firms to have discriminatory and favoring preferences simultaneously. We draw the two-preference parallel for the marginal firm, illustrate the ...
(published in: BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2017, 17 (1), 20160133.)
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J70, J31
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10289
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance
Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.), Workplace Productivity and Management Practices', (Research in Labour Economics 49), 2021)
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M51, M52, J31
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12984Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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