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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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The information value of central school exams

Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …, we exploit the unique German setting where students from states with and without central exams work on the same labor …

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The information value of central school exams

Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: European economic review : EER 73 (2014), pp. 103-130

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Overeducation: a disease of the school-to-work transition system

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While technological change and globalization have entailed a skill-bias in the evolution of labour demand in the Anglo-Saxon countries, instead, in other advanced economies in...

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The impact of an adult education voucher program : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 7/8, pp. 569-583

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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012

positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012

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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2013

.4 and 8% - when compared to EU economies. Ceteris paribus they tend to be more frequent among children of parents with lower …

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2013

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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