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Matching Efficiency and Heterogeneous Workers in the UK

Lisauskaite, Elena - 2022

The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … characteristics of unemployed, using the standard aggregate matching function. Consistent with the findings for the US (Barnichon and …

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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

Riddell, W. Craig - 2011

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...

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A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock

Hartog, Joop - 2009

, potential bias from unobserved heterogeneity and selectivity and consider the core issue of studentsﾒ information on benefits …

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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees

Fossen, Frank M. - 2012

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Returns to Education in Russia : Where There Is Risky Sexual Behaviour There Is Also an Instrument

Arabsheibani, G. Reza - 2012

Finding an instrument that is orthogonal to the disturbance term in the wage equation has been a topic of great deal of debate. Recently, Chesson et al. (2006) proposed that higher discount rates are significantly associated with a range of sexual behaviours, including having sex before age of...

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The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors

Braga, Michela - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of...

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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from Piaac

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications

Battistin, Erich - 2012

-reported information close to the date of completion of the qualification, and recall information ten years after completion. We are in the …

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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity : Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

Mahy, Benoit - 2015

The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative)...

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