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Knocking on the door to the teaching profession? : modeling the entry of prospective teachers into the workforce

Goldhaber, Daniel D.; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy - In: Economics of education review 43 (2014), pp. 106-124

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Does Less Wage Compression Lead to Less Training in Germany? An Expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...

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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...

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Career Changers in Teaching Jobs : A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System

Hof, Stefani - 2011

This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The … a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to work in teaching, every vocational teacher has to change his or her … initial career. This paper focuses on the relevance of monetary motives for changing a career to teaching. Using a unique data …

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Non-Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits : Labour Market Relevance and Their Development in Education & Training Systems

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

This paper reviews the empirical economic literature on the relative importance of non cognitive skills for school and labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not only from high cognitive skills but also from high...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...

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Job Mismatches and Career Mobility

Wen, Le - 2018

Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over …. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly using a rich Australian longitudinal data set. A dynamic random effects …, both of which are important to over-education analysis. Contrary to career theory, the results point to job mismatch as an …

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A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities

Bradley, Jake - 2018

We set up a model with on-the-job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for which workers occasionally apply. The model nests the standard job ladder and stock-flow models as special cases while remaining analytically tractable and easy to estimate from standard panel data sets....

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Labor Market Careers Before and after Incarceration

Kollo, Janos - 2014

We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...

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University peers and career prospects : the impact of university ties on early labor market outcomes

Ilyés, Virág; Sebők, Anna - In: Economics of education review 96 (2023), pp. 1-13

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