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Imperfect signals
Graetz, Georg - 2023
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580842
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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017
Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705487
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Sheepskin effects and the relationship between earnings and education : analyzing the evolution over time in Brazil
Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna; Reis, Maurício Cortez - 2015
This paper seeks to analyze trends in sheepskin effects and earnings-education relationship on the Brazilian labor market from 1982 to 2004. Using data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (Pnad) are estimated earnings equations including linear years of schooling, and splines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053318
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The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international...
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Scale effects in markets with search
Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900075
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895832
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428419
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Coordination in the Labor Market
Halko, Marja-Liisa; Virrankoski, Juha - 2011
We solve the equilibrium market structure in a labor market where vacancies and unemployed workers can meet either in an intermediated market where wages are determined by take-it-orleave- it offers, or in a directed search market where firms post wages. By using an intermediary agents avoid the...
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