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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test

Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...

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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024

This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative … employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted … overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …

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Dynamics of returns to vocational education in China : 2010-2017

Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data (2010-2017) to analyse the returns to different education qualifications. We additionally compare the returns to vocational education with returns to academic education, at both the upper secondary level and the tertiary level....

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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay delivers two main innovations with respect to the existing literature. First, and foremost, by extending the work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to discriminate between alternative theoretical...

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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders : an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018

The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow measuring the average effect of being educationally mismatched at the mean of the conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead,...

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Returns to education and female work force participation Nexus : evidence from India

Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2018

for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit …

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Do international study programmes pay off for local students?

Wang, Zhiling; Pastore, Francesco; Karreman, Bas; Oort, … - 2021 - Draft version: May 2021

premium operates. The wage premia can neither be explained by wage increase via cross-firm mobility, nor by faster upward … mobility within a firm. Instead, evidence point towards the differential characteristics of the first job upon graduation …

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Updates on returns to education in India : analysis using PLFS 2018-19 data

Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

In this paper, we report returns to education in India using unit level data from the nationwide Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2018-19. OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation are presented. Various econometric techniques (e.g., conventional IV and heteroskedasticity-based IV...

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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