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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View

Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … unemployment rate of adults aged 45 to 54; in Germany, this figure is only 1.7. Further peculiarities come up if unemployment is …By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …

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Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions

Biagi, Federico; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … individuals, in general, experience lower unemployment rates, changes in the population age structure appear to be positively … related to young workers’ unemployment rates while they have no effect on adults. Conversely changes in the skill structure …

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Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a...

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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic...

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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...

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The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in...

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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...

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Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Solon, Gary - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons’ and daughters’ socioeconomic outcomes and those of their...

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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production, but specialization requires communication and...

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