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Are short-lived jobs stepping stones to long-lasting jobs?

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2008

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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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...

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The effect of language training on immigrants' economic integration : empirical evidence from France

Lochmann, Alexia; Rapoport, Hillel; Speciale, Biagio - 2017

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this …

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Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020

Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...

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The desire for impact

Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Glazer, Amihai (contributor) - 2005

This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make firms in a competitive labor market act as monopsonists, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the...

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Educational and wage risk : social insurance vs. quality of education

Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...

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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 - 2009

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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No place like home? : graduate migration in Germany

Haussen, Tina; Übelmesser, Silke - 2015

We empirically analyze sub-national migration of graduates in Germany and its determinants. Based on a longitudinal … market and previous and subsequent migration patterns. We find that, five years after graduation, about 60% of the graduates … are employed in the university state either because they have stayed or returned. Whether or not graduates migrate largely …

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Are expectations alone enough? : estimating the effect of mandatory college-prep curriculum in Michigan

Jacob, Brian Aaron; Dynarski, Susan M.; Frank, Kenneth; … - 2016

This paper examines the impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC), a statewide college-preparatory curriculum that applies to the high school graduating class of 2008 and later. We use a student, longitudinal database for all public school students in Michigan for the main analyses, and...

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Entrepreneurship and market size : the case of young college graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - 2010

We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs …

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