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Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced "University Technical Colleges" (UTCs) in 2010 for...
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To explain the rise in the college wage premium in developed economies in the past decades, the present paper examines the effects of technological progress on workers effort incentives, which determine the effective labor supply. Five effort incentive effects of technological progress are...
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The difference-in-differences (DID) approach that identifies the capitalization of amenities through changes in housing prices has been widely used in the literature of hedonic estimation in the past decade. However, concerns have been raised about how to interpret the estimated capitalization...
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The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
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Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank … competition is likely to suffer from the same type of information asymmetry which induced the private market failure and which …
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According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when …
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portfolios to investors. We extend the signaling model for single sales of risky assets to portfolio sales. We identify … conditions under which signaling at the portfolio level dominates signaling at the single asset level. In particular, when banks … have better information about loan types on their books, and some commitment power to sales, can profit by pooling assets …
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This paper demonstrates the way in which stock-flow matching with endogenous seller entry generates hot and cold spells …
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This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...
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private sector, impairing the stabilizing effects of the policy. Using a theoretical model, we show that these signaling … identify fiscal news with different degrees of signaling effects and find that such effects weaken or, in extreme cases, even …
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