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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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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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Educating Europe

Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from … migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a graduate tax system could look for Finland. To protect citizens against … Leviathan governments, graduate taxes or income-contingent loans could be based on voluntary contracts. Education would then be …

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

Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008

present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is diversified ex post among the skilled by graduate taxation and skill … revenue from the graduate tax. -- Human capital investment ; educational risk ; wage risk ; learning effort ; graduate …

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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 three years after graduation. We find that doubling the province of work's population density reduces the chances of being an entrepreneur by 2-3 percentage points. This result...

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State investment in higher education : effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2020

Most public colleges and universities rely heavily on state financial support. As state budgets have tightened in recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers and scholars that the declines in state support have...

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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, representative survey-based dataset of students who graduated in the academic year 2004/2005, we observe the transition to the labor market and previous and subsequent migration...

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