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Evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project: the Austrian Steel Foundation
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing ... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: Europe; Austria
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Innovation; Industry; Income ... [+] Show more
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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups?: the case of Israel
There is considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary voca ... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: Middle East; Israel
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Disadvantaged; Labour market ... [+] Show more
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Human capital accumulation, education and earnings inequality
This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality i ... Show more
Date: 2001
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Income; Technology; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more
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On the complementarity between education and training in Europe
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European count ... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Youth; Outcomes; Income ... [+] Show more
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A product market theory of worker training
We develop a product market theory that identifies determinants of worker turnover and explains why firms invest in ... Show more
Date: 2001
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Income; Skills and knowledge; Governance ... [+] Show more
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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill: US and France 1964-2000
This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labour force in the last 35 years and quantifies the sub ... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: North America; Europe; United States ... [+] Show more
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Gender; Skills and knowledge; Finance ... [+] Show more
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Immigration policy and the skills of immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, edu ... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: North America; Oceania; United States ... [+] Show more
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Language; Income; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more
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The job search and education investments of immigrant families
This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new long ... Show more
Date: 2001
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Gender; Participation; Research ... [+] Show more
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Overeducation and skill endowments: the role of school achievement and vocational training quality
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of empl ... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Assessment; Qualifications ... [+] Show more
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Intergenerational transmissions and the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood ... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: Europe; Denmark
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Youth; Demographics; Employment ... [+] Show more