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College Expansion and Curriculum Choice
Kaganovich, Michael; Su, Xuejuan - CESifo - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...
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Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - CESifo - 2013
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723522
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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - CESifo - 2015
Higher education is not just a signal of innate ability. At least a certain level of educational achievement (degree level, degree mark) is strictly required to perform a graduate job. School leavers fall into two categories, the rich and the poor. Ability is distributed in the same way in both...
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Optimal Higher Education Enrollment and Productivity Externalities in a Two-Sector Model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - CESifo - 2012
We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each sector works with only one type of labor, skilled or unskilled, and individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit...
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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (“Native Germans”). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the...
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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - CESifo - 2015
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014
they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …
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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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