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The persistence and nature of the labor reallocation shock during the COVID-19 crisis
Steijn, Mathieu P. A. - 2024
to accelerate technological change. Previous recent crises were characterized by an acceleration of automation, which …
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Measuring the routine and non-routine task content of 427 four-digit ISCO-08 occupations
Mihaylov, Emil; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2019
the automation potential of tasks on a case-by-case basis and classify tasks to one or more of the five task categories … end of the envelop estimation of the number of occupations that might be at risk of automation. We find that approximately … 16 percent of the 427 ISCO-08 occupations fall into the so-called high risk of automation category - they contain 70 …
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Green technology adoption and skill reallocation
Nijs, Sacha J. den; Tyros, Stefanos - 2023
mismatch negatively affects the expected productivity of the new, green technologies, delaying their adoption and resulting in …
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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes
Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2015
We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...
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Determinants of the regional demand for higher education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospectivestudents’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinantsof university entrance...
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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Do early-ending conditional cash transfer programs crowd out school enrollment?
Wiegand, Martin - 2019
This paper explores how a conditional cash transfer program influences students' schooling decisions when program payments stop in the middle of the school career. To that end, I examine Mexico's Progresa, which covered students only until the end of middle school (at age 15) in its early years....
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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...
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Human capital and retirement
Alders, Peter - 1999
This paper investigates the relation between human capital andretirement when the age of retirement is endogenous. This relation isexamined in a life-cycle earnings model. An employee works full timeuntil retirement. The worker accumulates human capital by training-on-the-job and by...
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A generalized Email classification system for workflow analysis
Chaipornkaew, Piyanuch; Prexawanprasut, Takorn; Chang, … - 2017 - This version: revised July 2017
One of the most powerful internet communication channels is email. As employees and their clients communicate primarily via email, much crucial business data is conveyed via email content. Where businesses are understandably concerned, they need a sophisticated workflow management system to...
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