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Stick, Carrot and Skill Acquisition

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  • Filges, Trine

    (Danish National Institute of Social Research)

  • Larsen, Birthe

    (Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School)

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This paper examins the macroeconomic effects of youth unemployement programmes in the form of vocational training (YUPs), developing a two sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining for skilled workers. Unskilled sector wages are indexed to skilled sector wages. Workers differ with respect to ability, having importance for the young worker`s skill decision. Furthermore, a young worker may be offered vocational training through YUPs. The total number of skilled workers is therefore determined by these two channels and the interaction between them. We focus on the impact of YUPs on skill division, unemployment distribution workers and aggregate unemployment.

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  • Filges, Trine & Larsen, Birthe, 2001. "Stick, Carrot and Skill Acquisition," Working Papers 09-2001, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Skill acquisition; Search; Unemployment;
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    JEL classification:

    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
    • J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy

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