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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals’ adaptability to employment shocks …. Specifically, we assess the extent to which education influences re-employment success for unemployed workers. We also examine the … impact of education on job search intensity, one potential mechanism through which education may increase the probability of …
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Extending the L1-IV approach proposed by Sakata (1997, 2007), we develop a new method, named the $rho_{tau}$-IV estimation, to estimate structural equations based on the conditional quantile restriction imposed on the error terms. We study the asymptotic behavior of the proposed estimator and...
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We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs— that is, glass ceilings— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage …rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...
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studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive … correlations between the level of education and the rate of technology adoption, however, do not necessarily reflect the true … causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study …
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As school leaders, principals can influence student achievement in a number of ways, such as: hiring and firing teachers, monitoring instruction, and maintaining student discipline, among others. We measure the effect of individual principals on gains in student math and reading achievement...
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. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The paper analyzes three possible general methods to measure …
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find that an additional month of relative age decreases the likelihood of receiving special education services by 2 …
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of education between immigrants and their children. On average, the children of immigrants have educational levels … residence, the children of immigrants outperform the 3rd-and-higher generation in educational attainment. Parental education and … the positive gap between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations remains in Canada. In Canada, parental education is less …
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This paper studies the incidence and duration of unemployment in Canada at an aggregate and a number of disaggregated levels with data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey covering 1976 to 2006. The principal empirical findings indicate that most of the changes in steady state unemployment...
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analysis indicates that dropouts have poorer wage and employment outcomes, and they do not make up for their lack of education …
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