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Using Online Platforms for Competence Tests: A Component of the Demographic Policy of Germany

Spermann, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Lifelong learning represents a key response to the demographic challenge in Germany. In terms of professional success, not only hard skills but also soft skills hold importance. Indeed, the OECD competence tests PISA and PIAAC have come to the fore, although acquired skills are still relevant....

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Behavioral Economics of Education

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests)...

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Online-Portale für Kompetenztests – ein Baustein für die Demografiestrategie Deutschlands

Spermann, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Die zentrale Antwort auf die demografische Herausforderung in Deutschland ist das lebenslange Lernen. Mit Blick auf den beruflichen Erfolg sind dabei nicht nur die hard skills, sondern auch die soft skills von Bedeutung. Kompetenzen wurden durch die OECD-Kompetenztests PISA und PIAAC zwar in den...

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Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia

Premand, Patrick; Brodmann, Stefanie; Almeida, Rita K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and...

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Network Structure and Education Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh

Hahn, Youjin; Islam, Asadul; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study the causal impact of network centrality on educational outcomes using field experiments in primary schools in Bangladesh. After obtaining information on friendship networks, we randomly allocate students into groups and give them individual and group assignments. We find that groups...

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"Soft" Skills, "Hard" Skills, and the Black/White Earnings Gap

Fan, C. Simon; Wei, Xiangdong; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively "soft"/"hard" skills are used in an occupation, the greater/smaller the black/white pay...

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Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Commander, Simon; Chanda, Rupa; Kangasniemi, Mari; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …

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Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

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