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Admission standards, student effort, and the creation of skilled jobs
Blankenau, William; Gao, Yuan - In: Economic modelling 43 (2014), pp. 209-216
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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the...
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Why do firms use fixed-term contracts?
Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José - 2009
Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary employment - employment with fixed-term contracts - fits into employers' hiring policies. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271266
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277016
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The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - 2004
consistent with the hypothesis that the signaling aspect of past promotions is stronger for those who are less educated and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261773
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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2001
Becker?s theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of...
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Parental involvement and children's human capital : a tax-subsidy experiment
Gahramanov, Emin; Hasanov, Rashad; Tang, Xueli - In: Economic modelling 85 (2020), pp. 16-29
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210593
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Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2004
In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former … not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to … workers displaced through plant closings in the predicted way, and finds evidence consistent with asymmetric information in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276359
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Job Search with Nonparticipation
Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2004
In a non-stationary job search model we allow unemployed workers to have a permanent option to leave the labor force. Transitions into nonparticipation occur when reservation wages drop below the utility of being nonparticipant. Taking account of these transitions allows the identification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262149
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Bestimmungsgründe von Fehlzeiten: Welche Rolle spielt die Arbeitslosigkeit?
Thalmaier, Anja - 1999
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung besteht darin, die wesentlichen Determinanten für das Auftreten von Fehlzeiten zu analysieren. In einem ersten Schritt werden die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen der Entgeltfortzahlung und ihre historische Entwicklung aufgezeigt. Die Analyse...
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