Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,489
Cover Image
The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States
Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the … state if the college graduates leave the state after finishing their education. This paper examines the relationship between … the production of college graduates from a state and the stock of college graduates residing in the state using microdata …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106180
Cover Image
Migration of Graduates within a Sequential Decision Framework: Evidence from Poland
Herbst, Mikolaj; Kaczmarczyk, Pawel; Wojcik, Piotr - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
process and in the life course. Applying multinomial logit modelling on the unique database on Polish graduates we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959800
Cover Image
Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369115
Cover Image
City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703768
Cover Image
Commuting Time and Labour Supply: A Causal Effect?
Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker’s commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855350
Cover Image
Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism
Assaad, Ragui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884150
Cover Image
Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries
Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition methods in order to identify the role of these factors for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884354
Cover Image
Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … in U.S. metropolitan areas. I find that both native and foreign-born STEM graduates significantly increase metropolitan … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959806
Cover Image
Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training
Biavaschi, Costanza; Eichhorst, Werner; Giulietti, Corrado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and education policies. We highlight the role of demographic factors, economic growth and labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271995
Cover Image
Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279243