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competences. We find substantial pay penalties for over-education for both sexes and for overskilling in the case of men only …. When both education and skill mismatch variables are included together in the model only overskilling reduces job …
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We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
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Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
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This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment … Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of workplace education and training using both subjective (managers’ assessments …) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
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Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as...
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classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the …
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variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …
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