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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities

Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022

This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...

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Returns to higher education and dropouts : a double machine learning approach

McNamara, Sarah - 2020

This paper provides estimates of the short-term individual returns to Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom, focusing on the effects of attending HE on the labour market outcomes for dropouts. Results show differential labour market outcomes for dropouts vs. individuals who have never...

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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage …

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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2012

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A question of degree : the effects of degree class on labor market outcomes

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2013

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Does a Bachelor's degree pay off? : labor market outcomes of academic versus vocational education after Bologna

Neugebauer, Martin; Weiss, Felix - 2017

universities are also related to higher risks of unemployment or fixed-term employment. Universities of applied sciences, which … combine academic and practical training, offer both high earnings and prestigious jobs as well as low risks of unemployment or …

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Educational returns, ability composition and cohort effects : theory and evidence for cohorts of early-career UK graduates

Ireland, Norman J.; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; … - 2009

An increase over time in the proportion of young people obtaining a degree is likely to impact on the relative ability compositions (i) of graduates and non-graduates and (ii) across graduates with different classes of degree award. In a signalling framework, we examine the implications of this...

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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...

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Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

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