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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Student Abilities During the Expansion of US Education

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - CESifo - 2013

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

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The Return to College: Selection Bias and Dropout Risk

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - CESifo - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor’s degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...

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How Risky is College Investment?

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - CESifo - 2015

develop a quantitative model of college choice. The innovation is to model in detail how students progress towards a college …

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Why Does Educational Attainment Differ Across U.S. States?

Hendricks, Lutz - CESifo - 2004

The fraction of persons holding a college degree differs nearly two-fold across U.S. states. This paper documents data related to state educational attainment differences and explores possible explanations. It shows that highly educated states employ skillbiased technologies, specialize in...

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Overeducation at the Start of the Career - Stepping Stone or Trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - CESifo - 2012

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate … or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to … started searching for a job right after leaving formal education. We find that overeducation is a trap. This trap is …

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