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Overeducation: a disease of the school-to-work transition system
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
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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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high - at 11.4 and 8% - when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...
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Parental background, primary to secondary school transitions, and wages
Dustmann, Christian - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403839
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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411235
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Absolute risk aversion and the returns to education
Brunello, Giorgio - 2000
Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336851
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Joint decisions on household membership and human capital accumulation of youths : the role of expected earnings and local markets
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Monfardini, Chiara - 2000
This paper analyses the effects of expected earnings and local markets conditions on the behaviour of young adults with high school diplomas. Decisions to either remain in the parental home or form a new household are modelled jointly with those of either gaining work experience or investing in...
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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000
Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a … larger share of the population involved in human capital investment faces high marginal costs in Italy compared to the …
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
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School quality and family background in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational … education. -- education ; quality ; Italy …
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
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