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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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This paper revisits the airline schedule-buffer choice problem analyzed by Brueckner, Czerny and Gaggero (2020) using a simpler model where the random shocks influencing flight times are discrete rather than continuous. The analysis yields closed-form solutions for the flight and ground buffers...
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This paper presents an extensive theoretical and empirical analysis of the choice of schedule buffers by airlines. With airline delays a continuing problem around the world, such an undertaking is valuable, and its lessons extend to other passenger transportation sectors. One useful lesson from...
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interactions, players who make their choices fast and intuitively, relying on social heuristics, choose stag more often than other … Heuristics Hypothesis (Rand et al., 2012) applied to stag hunt interactions. …
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Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear...
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We consider a multi-service transportation system in which passengers are heterogeneous along two dimensions, namely ideal departure time and value of time, leading to both horizontal and vertical differentiation. We investigate the behavior of passengers, and assess how service pricing and...
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of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills … selection policies. -- skill formation ; human capital ; selection ; heterogeneity ; age effects ; training ; education …
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We provide a new explanation for why firms pay for general training in a competitive labor market. If firms are unable … to tailor individual wages to ability, for informational or institutional reasons, they will pay for general training in … order to attract better quality workers. The market provision of training may well exceed the first best level. Our …
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Workers will not pay for general on-the-job training if contracts are not enforceable. Firms may if there are mobility … elsewhere. Their new employers then receive external benefits from their training. In this paper, training firms increase …
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