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Educational attainment, age and the consequences of job loss : empirical evidence from Germany
Effenberger, Alexandra; Lauber, Verena; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2019
German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …
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Overeducation, skill mismatches, and labor market outcomes for college graduates : overskilling or overskilling plus overeducation are more likely than overeducation alone to harm...
Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the skills they learned in college are not being fully used. Most of the literature on educational or skill mismatch is based on cross-sectional data, providing information at just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420242
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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006
Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...
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When you say nothing at all : the predictive power of student effort on surveys
Hitt, Collin; Trivitt, Julie; Cheng, Albert - In: Economics of education review 52 (2016), pp. 105-119
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
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Building labor market skills among disadvantaged US workers : four-year college degrees and alternatives
Holzer, Harry J. - In: Human capital policy : reducing inequality, boosting …, (pp. 193-210). 2021
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The impact of the Great Recession on overeducated and undereducated workers
Rubb, Stephen - In: Education economics 28 (2020) 3, pp. 263-274
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The educational effects of school start times : delaying secondary school start times can be a cost-effective policy to improve students' grades and test scores
Shapiro, Teny Maghakian - 2015
The combination of changing sleep patterns in adolescence and early school start times leaves secondary school classrooms filled with sleep-deprived students. Evidence is growing that having adolescents start school later in the morning improves grades and emotional well-being, and even reduces...
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital with strong empirical links to productivity
Botev, Jarmila; Égert, Balázs; Smidova, Zuzana; … - 2019
This paper calculates new measures of human capital. Contrary to the existing literature, they are based on realistic rates of return to education, which are allowed to vary substantially across countries and to some extent over time. The new measures perform well in regression analysis...
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Literacy and numeracy of overeducated and undereducated workers : revisiting the allocation process in the labour market
Grunau, Philipp - In: Education economics 28 (2020) 4, pp. 403-417
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