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Human capital externalities with monopsonistic competition

Kaas, Leo (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …. -- Externalities ; human capital ; multiple equilibria …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759894

Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125884

Numeracy and unemployment duration

Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019

Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060752

Estimating complementarity between education and training

Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2008

permanent endowments as well as on education. We find evidence of statistically significant complementarity, i.e. the higher …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784398

Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401268

Human capital persistence and development

Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193

Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

human capital externalities, gathering microdata beyond censuses, and carefully considering optimal policy - among others …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889

The effects of shared school technology access on students digital skills in Peru

Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...

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Does the precision and stability of value-added estimates of teacher performance depend on the types of students they serve?

Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013

This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...

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The effects of occupational knowledge : job information centers, educational choices, and labor market outcomes

Saniter, Nils Peter (contributor); … - 2014

This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...

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