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Just the facts, ma'am: Postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the US
Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop, Erin - 2013
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293246
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Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market
Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2013
another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home … abroad, or return home to utilize the internationally acquired knowledge in the domestic labour market. In this paper we use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329032
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Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers
Huttunen, Kristiina; Riukula, Krista - 2019
We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179981
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Learning at Home: Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development during the COVID-19 Lockdown
Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020
School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322618
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Is It Worth It? Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes for the Disadvantaged
Backes, Benjamin; Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop Velez, Erin - 2014
In this paper we examine a range of postsecondary education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on minorities and/or disadvantaged workers. We use administrative data from the state of Florida, where postsecondary student records have been linked to UI earnings data and also to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421155
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When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times
Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020
What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for children from low-income families. Peer effects also change: schools allow children from different socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497866
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Just the Facts, Ma'am: Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the U.S.
Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop Velez, Erin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959690
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Is It Worth It? Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes for the Disadvantaged
Backes, Benjamin; Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop Velez, Erin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we examine a range of postsecondary education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on minorities and/or disadvantaged workers. We use administrative data from the state of Florida, where postsecondary student records have been linked to UI earnings data and also to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959755
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Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market
Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home … abroad, or return home to utilize the internationally acquired knowledge in the domestic labour market. In this paper we use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764605
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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaule, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497980