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Qualifikatorisches (Mis)matching und die Ausnutzung von fachlichen Kenntnissen und Fähigkeiten von Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland : zur Bedeutung von Personen- und Arbeitsplatzmerkm...
Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119
/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis …
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Skill mismatch and overeducation in transition economies : substantial skill shortages coexist with overeducation, affecting both young and old workers
Kupets, Olga - 2015
Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic restructuring, misalignment of the education system with labor market needs, and underdeveloped adult education and training systems. The costs of mismatches can be large and...
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Approaches to learn about employer learning
Ablay, Mahmut; Lange, Fabian - In: The Canadian journal of economics : the journal of the … 56 (2023) 2, pp. 343-356
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Strategy-proof tie-breaking in matching with priorities
Ehlers, Lars H.; Westkamp, Alexander - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 13 (2018) 3, pp. 1009-1042
-proof mechanism that is constrained efficient, i.e. that always produces a stable matching that is not Pareto-dominated by another … stable matching. We characterize all solvable priority structures satisfying the following two restrictions: (A) Either there …
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Education-occupation mismatch and its wage penalties in informal employment in Thailand
Vivatsurakit, Tanthaka; Vechbanyongratana, Jessica - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 1, pp. 119-141
This study examines the incidence of vertical mismatch among formal and informal workers in Thailand. Using the 2011, 2013, and 2015 Thailand Household Socio-economic Surveys, the study analyzes the relationship between vertical mismatch and wage penalties and premiums across four types of...
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Family ties : school assignment with siblings
Dur, Umut Mert; Morrill, Thayer; Phan, William - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 89-120
We introduce a generalization of the school choice problem motivated by the following observations: students are assigned to grades within schools, many students have siblings who are applying as well, and school districts commonly guarantee that siblings will attend the same school. This last...
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Improving matching under hard distributional constraints
Fragiadakis, Daniel; Troyan, Peter - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 12 (2017) 2, pp. 863-908
requirements at each Army branch in military cadet matching and diversity considerations in school choice, whereby school districts … the mechanism is run). We show that these current solutions ignore important information contained in the submitted … properties. We expect the use of our mechanisms to improve the performance of matching markets with distributional constraints in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705212
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The only child, birth order and educational outcomes
Lao, Yehui; Dong, Zhiqiang - 2019
The one-child policy was implemented in September 1980 and abolished in late 2015. With this change in the demographic policy, the fertility decision of families also changed. Such decisions can result in an increase in the number of siblings in a family. Individuals' educational outcomes may be...
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The relationship between school performance and future wages in Brazil
Curi, Andréa Zaitune; Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 3, pp. 261-274
This paper examines whether the quality of learning, measured by the scores obtained by the 1978 generation at the end of high school (1995), affects the wages received by this cohort five years later, measured in the 2000 Census. We compute average wages and proficiency for each...
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Does affirmative action lead to mismatch? : a new test and evidence
Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Fang, Hanming; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 2 (2011) 3, pp. 303-333
universities possess private information. Ex ante mismatch occurs when revelation of this information would have changed the … information that is a statistically significant predictor of students’ post-enrollment academic performance. Further, this private … information is shown to affect the subjective measures of students’ satisfaction as well as their persistence in more difficult …
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