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market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
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substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
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It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...
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empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
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becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
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markets in developing countries are likely to grow further as teacher quality becomes a greater focus of education policy …
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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employment and education. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, we … change in high school enrollment, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and …
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, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the …
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Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...
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