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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Lex, Borghans; Bart, Golsteyn - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2011

Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare crossnationallybecause of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of collegegraduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform datacovering 11 European countries and Japan....

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Optimal Policy and the Risk Properties of Human Capital Reconsidered

Anderberg, Dan - CESifo - 2008

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. Aset of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …

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The Effect of Education on Marital Status and Partner Characteristics: Evidence from the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - CESifo - 2010

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...

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Are Courses Chosen to Reduce Skill-Deficiences? An Experimental Approach

Lex, Borghans; Bart, Golsteyn - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2007

Do people choose courses to reduce work-related skill-deficiencies, and do theychoose courses deliberately? We measure the skill-deficiency for six skills andperform an experiment in which workers are offered three courses related tothese skills. They may exchange these courses for other...

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Education, Disappointment and Optimal Policy

Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - CESifo - 2014

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Lex, Borghans; Bart, Golsteyn; James, Heckman; Huub, Meijers - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguityaversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preferenceparameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preferenceparameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

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Skill Transferability Regret and Mobility

Lex, Borghans; Bart, Golsteyn - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

points, while those who switch on average take 0.3 months additional education. …

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