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conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect …Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether …
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conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect …Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
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In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign …
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Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …
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minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …
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