Skill Development Patterns and their Impact on Re-employability: Evidence for Portugal

Leâo Fernandes, GRAÇA and Passos, JOSÉ and Chagas Lopes, MARGARIDA (2004): Skill Development Patterns and their Impact on Re-employability: Evidence for Portugal.

Abstract

Abstract:

With employment and labour crisis training for (re)employability reaches the highest importance and absorbs an increasing share among public active labour market policies. Provided that retraining is adequate shorter unemployment spells can be observed in the transition between jobs. Therefore duration models seem to be quite adequate to model the time intervals between previous and subsequent occupations and the kind of skills /training acquired in between deserves most attention among the main covariates. In this paper we adjust such a models for POrtugal on the basis of data obtained from the Portuguese Statistical Office's Employment Survey.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Transition between jobs; unemployment duration; retraining; skills; POrtugal; Employment Survey
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics > C41 - Duration Analysis ; Optimal Timing Strategies; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity

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