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Matching efficiency and heterogeneous workers in the UK

Lisauskaitė, Elena - 2022

The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … characteristics of unemployed, using the standard aggregate matching function. Consistent with the findings for the US (Barnichon and …

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Homeownership and labour market outcomes : micro versus macro performances

Beugnot, Julie; Lacroix, Guy; Charlot, Olivier - 2014

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

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The academic and labor market returns of university professors

Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of...

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Can educational expansion improve income inequality in China? : evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data

Ning, Guangjie - 2010

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how education affects individual earnings during the...

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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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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 literature...

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Lost wages: the COVID-19 cost of school closures

Psacharopoulos, George; Collis, Victoria; Patrinos, … - 2020

Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's learners: over 1.5 billion children and young people. Closures are expected to reduce schooling and...

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The long-run effects of recessions on education and income

Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census data, I estimate difference-in-differences regressions that exploit variation across counties in recession severity and across cohorts in age at the time of the recession. For...

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The risks and benefits of school integration for participating students : evidence from a randomized desegregation program

Bergman, Peter - 2018

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of such a program receiving students, this paper studies...

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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA

Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...

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