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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs

Cigno, Alessandro - 2015

common knowledge. Graduates and graduate jobs are matched by tournament. In laissez faire, only the rich can buy enough … some of the rich buy too much education, and some of the graduates have lower ability than some of the non-graduates … the same quality are assigned to graduates with the same education but different ability. Competition among employers will …

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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?

Cockx, Bart - 2009

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size - The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia; Vuri, Daniela - 2021

We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as …

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Stay in School or Start Working? - The Human Capital Investment Decision under Uncertainty and Irreversibility

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Pilichowski, Margarethe - 2021

As the time of leaving school determines the level of academic achievement this timing decision is central for the human capital investment decision. Real option theory offers a new perspective of the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other...

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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … investments. We describe the structure and methodology of the database and illustrate its variety and strengths by looking at some …

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor : Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2021

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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The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation

Bastani, Spencer - 2010

Using a calibrated overlapping generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age dependent income tax. Agents face uncertainty regarding future abilities and can by saving transfer consumption across periods. The welfare gain of switching from an age-independent to an age-dependent...

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The Effect of School Starting Age on Special Needs Incidence and Child Development into Adolescence

Balestra, Simone - 2018

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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