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Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring involve two decisions: a) whether to take private tuition...

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Gender Gaps in Spain: Family Issues and the Career Development of College Educated Men and Women

González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the labor market have been relatively recent …

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Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics … entire economy (as opposed to case study evidence) on the effects of the nature and scope of human capital on career success … formally through schooling for career success, as well as the gender gap in career success rates. Second, broadening the scope …

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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England

MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...

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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (1990, 2000/01) and...

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How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?

Prowse, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper investigates the causes of the well documented association between part-time employment and low occupational attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to the occupational attainment of women who choose...

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The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...

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Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty

Prat, Julien; Jovanovic, Boyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an approach that works for any utility function when the parameter and noise are normally distributed...

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Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time

Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing … firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on … working hours. When effortbased career opportunities are effective, they raise working time and output per worker reducing …

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