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Teacher labor market equilibrium and student achievement
Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew; … - 2022
We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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The market for CEOs
Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021
We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
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Is there job polarization in developing economies? : a review and outlook
Martins-Neto, Antonio; Mathew, Nanditha; Mohnen, Pierre A. - 2021
This paper analyses the evidence of job polarization in developing countries. We carry out an extensive review of the existing empirical literature and examine the primary data sources and measures of routine intensity. The synthesis of results suggests that job polarization in emerging...
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The quantity and quality of teachers : a dynamic trade-off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2009
We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model. The quantity and quality are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers’ collective...
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement : evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
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Weak markets, strong teachers : recession at career start and teacher effectiveness
Nagler, Markus; Piopiunik, Marc; West, Martin R. - 2015
How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by exploiting business cycle conditions at career start as a source of exogenous variation in the outside options of potential teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess...
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The effects of student composition on teacher turnover : evidence from an admission reform
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2016
This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...
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