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Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers
Non, Arjan - 2011
By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that...
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A Signaling Model of University Selection
Anic, Ivan; Bozin, Vladimir; Urosevic, Branko - 2021
We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315508
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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059025
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Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions : Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure
McGuigan, Martin - 2014
in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … and benefits of staying on in education. We compare the effects of a specially designed information campaign to the …, we find that an inexpensive information campaign can be effective in improving information and reducing perceived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043598
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Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom?
Chingos, Matthew M. - 2010
We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001–02 and 2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers leaving for other industries, a 1 standard deviation increase in...
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...
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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316138
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2011
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122251
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The Consequences of Being Different - Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Mueller, Barbara - 2011
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by … explain differences of the individual performances during training. Our results suggest that hard-to-get information plays a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130101