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Does the labour market value field of study specific knowledge? : an alignment score based approach
Manuel, Nick - In: Economics of education review 101 (2024), pp. 1-20
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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain
Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016
By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...
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Education and skill mismatches among immigrants : the impact of host language proficiency
Budría, Santiago; Ibarreta, Carlos Martínez de - In: Economics of education review 84 (2021), pp. 1-18
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The role of human capital and technological change in overeducation
Oliveira, M. Mendes de; Santos, Maria C.; Kiker, Billy … - In: Economics of education review 19 (2000) 2, pp. 199-206
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Beyond Cobb-Douglas : Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency
Lange, Fabian; Papageorgiou, Theodore - 2022
the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …. First, we show how to non-parametrically identify the matching function. Second, we estimate the matching function allowing … for unobserved matching efficacy, without imposing the usual independence assumption between matching efficiency and …
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
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Impact of household factors on youth's school decisions in Thailand
Tharmmapornphilas, Rubkwan - In: Economics of education review 37 (2013), pp. 258-272
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Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment
Brown, Charles - 2010
While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the extent of this reduction is much less certain. Moreover, because few previous studies report results of more than one specification, the causes of differences in estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760358
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Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment
Brown, Charles; Gilroy, Curtis; Kohen, Andrew I. - 2021
While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the extent of this reduction is much less certain. Moreover, because few previous studies report results of more than one specification, the causes of differences in estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214616
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The Effects of Youth Employment : Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Gelber, Alexander - 2015
Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...
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