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specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …
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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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test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …
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-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique … the results to the U.S. We find that (1) U.S. graduates hold more jobs than European graduates. (2) Contrasting … mobility within Europe. -- job mobility ; graduates ; Europe ; Japan ; US …
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This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … in U.S. metropolitan areas. I find that both native and foreign-born STEM graduates significantly increase metropolitan … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on …
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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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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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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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, among whom GED recipients earn less than high school graduates but significantly more than dropouts. The effects for natives …
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