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Wage employment, unemployment and self-employment across countries
Poschke, Markus - 2019
Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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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 estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...
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Do grow-your-own programs work? : evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland
Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, … - 2024
Local teacher recruitment through "grow-your-own" programs is a prominent strategy to address workforce shortages and ensure that incoming teachers resemble, understand, and have strong connections to their communities. We exploit the staggered rollout of the Teacher Academy of Maryland career...
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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?
Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024
We merge experimental data on competitiveness of a large sample of students with their complete educational history for up to ten years after the initial assessment. Exploiting quasi-random class assignments, we find that having competitive peers as classmates makes students choose and secure...
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Do they understand the benefits from education? : evidence on Dutch high school students’ earnings expectations
Mazza, Jacopo; Hartog, Joop - 2011
Using an internet collected dataset, we will provide some empirical evidence on the information that Dutch high school students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and high attrition, but we detect little systematic...
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Is self-employment a way to escape from skill mismatches?
Albiol Sanchez, Judit; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Teruel, Graciela - 2015
During the last two decades, skill mismatches have become one of the most important issues of policy concern in the EU (European Commission, 2008). Hence, the literature has stressed the necessity to reduce skill mismatches. We contribute to this literature by analyzing the impact of the...
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283120
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Male wage inequality and characteristics of "early mover" marriages
Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2022
Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the return to marital search. Consequently, male wage inequality should be associated with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169030
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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This …This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate … entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607769
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Employees who become self-employed : do labour income and wages have an impact?
Andersson, Pernilla (contributor);  … - 2006
-employed. The predicted income is calculated from a standard income regression with controls for age, education, family status …, family background and place of residence. By construction of a ratio between the actual and the predicted income we identify …
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