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The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...
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Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non …-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …
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outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still … who did not have access to these facilities. However, we find no effects on individuals' earnings in their first job or …
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variation in regional labor market characteristics. Pure firm changes and occupation-and-job changes after graduation from …. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the wage …
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to students extending their horizon of job search. A bivariate probit analysis also confirms that there is a positive …
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quality jobs? Or do we observe stagnation and conservation of the job structure? Structural change of this sort can be brought … hypothesis and they document a fast upgrade of the job structure during the 1st sub-period and a stalemate during the 2nd one …. Apparently, risks of job polarization are likely to be minimal until economic growth is recovered and a movement to the …
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In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development exam, or GED. Using new data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the return to the GED varies between U.S. natives and the foreign-born. We find that foreignborn men who hold a GED but received...
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This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While technological change and globalization have entailed a skill-bias in the evolution of labour demand in the Anglo-Saxon countries, instead, in other advanced economies in...
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unionized jobs. This lower hiring rate more than offsets the greater job retention of unionized workers with disabilities. Given …
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This paper shows that job mobility is a valuable channel which employed workers use to mitigate bad labor market shocks …. I construct and estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model of job mobility. The key feature of the … Participation. The first result is that the variance of match-level shocks is large, and the consequent value of job mobility is …
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