National and regional labour market strategies in foreign countries

Labour Market Outcomes : A Cross - National Study

Labour Market Outcomes : A Cross - National Study

Under the educational sorting hypothesis, an environment in which some individuals are constrained from entering university will be characterized by increased pooling at the high school graduation level, as compared to an environment with greater university access. This results because some potential high school drop{outs and university enrollees choose the high school graduate designation in o...

ECB Labour market mismatches in euro area countries, March 2002

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Transitions in the Danish Labour Market: A Regional Analysis

This paper analyses the transitions from unemployment into employment and out-of-labour force using a mixed proportional hazard framework. The regional differences in the transition intensities, individual effects and discouragement probability are investigated using Danish registry data for 1985-1998. The transition intensity from unemployment into employment is decreasing and the intensity in...

Innovation and Regional Absorptive Capacity: the Labour Market Dimension

This paper tests how the labour market characteristics of European regions shape regional absorptive capacity (RACAP), and regions’ ability to assimilate knowledge from public and externally-conducted R&D. In particular, we aim to establish whether labour market aspects of RACAP are more important for innovation in prosperous or lagging regions of the EU. Using European Innovation Scoreboard da...