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differences in social mobility and persistence. …
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. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
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We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...
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This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
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differences in social mobility and persistence …
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inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover … household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …
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, administrative matched employer-employee data. The distributional analysis is then conducted by transposing predicted employment … effects of actual output shocks to household-level microdata. A scenario in which labor demand adjustments occur at the …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …
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, administrative matched employer-employee data. The distributional analysis is then conducted by transposing predicted employment … effects of actual output shocks to household-level microdata. A scenario in which labor demand adjustments occur at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127632
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056834