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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …

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The consequences of long term unemployment : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - 2016

It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity)....

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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …

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Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); Tyler, John H. (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the GED passing standard, to yield unbiased estimates of the signaling value of the GED for marginal...

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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US

Winters, John V. - 2013

increase the stock of college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, but data … uses the 2009-2011 American Community Survey to examine the external effects of college graduates in STEM and non …-STEM fields on the wages of other workers in the same metropolitan area. I find that both types of college graduates create …

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Crime scars : recessions and the making of career criminals

Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - 2014

Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns suffer from poor job matches that have a sustained detrimental effect on their wages and career...

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Natives, the foreign-born and high school equivalents : new evidence on the returns to the GED

Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002

, among whom GED recipients earn less than high school graduates but significantly more than dropouts. The effects for natives …

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The production and stock of college graduates for US states

Winters, John V. - 2014

educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the … state if the college graduates leave the state after finishing their education. This paper examines the relationship between … the production of college graduates from a state and the stock of college graduates residing in the state using microdata …

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Do a few months of compulsory schooling matter? : The education and labour market impact of school leaving rules

Bono, Emilia del (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Decreasing time to baccalaureate degree in the United States

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Eide, Eric R.; Mumford, Kevin J.; … - 2021

After increasing in the 1970s and 1980s, time to bachelor's degree has declined since the 1990s. We document this fact using data from three nationally representative surveys. We show that this pattern is occurring across school types and for all student types. Using administrative student...

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