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Retaining through training even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 29-48
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
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Skill premia and intergenerational education mobility: The French case
Ben-Halima, B.; Chusseau, N.; Hellier, J. - In: Economics of Education Review 39 (2014) C, pp. 50-64
In the case of France, we analyse the changes in the wage value of each education level and the impact of parents’ education and income upon the education attainment of children, sons and daughters. We find a critical decline in the skill premium of the Baccalauréat (‘bac’) in relation to...
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Career effects of occupation-related vocational education: Evidence from the military's internal labor market
Pema, Elda; Mehay, Stephen - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 680-693
Prior research on the labor market success of secondary vocational education has produced mixed results, with several studies finding wage gains only for individuals who work in training-related occupations. We contribute to this debate by focusing on a single occupation and organization and by...
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Educational mismatch and self-employment
Bender, Keith A.; Roche, Kristen - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 85-95
Previous research on educational mismatch concentrates on estimating its labor market consequences but with a focus on wage and salary workers. This paper examines the far less studied influence of mismatch on the self-employed. Using a sample of workers in science and engineering fields,...
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Am I missing something? The effects of absence from class on student performance
Arulampalam, Wiji; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 4, pp. 363-375
We analyse a rich dataset of Economics students at a UK university to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance, exploiting the random assignment of students and information on students’ class timetables to avoid selection problems. We use panel properties of the data to...
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The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 263-275
English requirements using the over-education, required education, under-education (ORU) approach. The analyses show that …
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The labor market returns to a for-profit college education
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg; Chaudhary, Latika - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 125-140
A lengthy literature estimating the returns to education has largely ignored the for-profit sector. In this paper, we estimate the earnings gains to for-profit college attendance using restricted-access data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Using an individual fixed...
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Stuck in a mismatch? The persistence of overeducation during twenty years of the post-communist transition in Poland
Kiersztyn, Anna - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 78-91
This paper examines long-term changes in the persistence of overeducation among individual workers, focusing on the … situation five years later. The incidence of overeducation increased in the studied period, most rapidly during recession. The …
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Occupation–education mismatch of immigrant workers in Europe: Context and policies
Aleksynska, Mariya; Tritah, Ahmed - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 229-244
. Notably, origin countries’ quality of human capital, by affecting selection, mostly matters for undereducation of immigrants …. Overeducation is determined to a greater extent by destination country economic conditions and labor market institutions. Immigrant …, other policies, such as those improving eligibility or aimed at antidiscrimination may aggravate overeducation by attracting …
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Does the availability of parental health insurance affect the college enrollment decision of young Americans?
Jung, Juergen; Hall, Diane M. Harnek; Rhoads, Thomas - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 49-65
The present study examines whether the college enrollment decision of young individuals (student full-time, student part-time, and non-student) depends on health insurance coverage via a parent's family health plan. Our findings indicate that the availability of parental health insurance can...
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