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A North-South agent based model of segmented labour markets : the role of education and trade asymmetries
Fanti, Lucrezia; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2023
of the education level they are able to provide. Education is modeled as a national-level policy differently targeting … in terms of both requested education level and offered wages. To address the role of trade and education, we experiment … with different education-policy and trade settings. Ultimately, we are interested in understanding the coupling effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285556
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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes
Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019
The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140024
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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)
Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael - 2017
We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114625
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The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men : 1970-2019
Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479664
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The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men : 1970-2019
Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287104
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The impact of compulsory education on employment and earnings in a transition economy
Liwiński, Jacek - 2018
primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131245
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The world at the crossroad : demographic polarization and mass migration : global threat or global opportunity
Bruni, Michele - 2019
The unstoppable progress of the demographic transition is determining a progressive decline of the rates of growth of the total population and working age population of the planet, two phenomena that could have a very positive global socioeconomic and environmental impact. Unfortunately, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162985
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The belt and road initiative : demographic trends, labour markets and welfare systems of member countries
Bruni, Michele - 2019
A brief analysis of the different demographic tendencies that will affect the 65 countries of the Belt and Road Initiative allows to point out that they are largely spread along the path of the demographic transition so that in some working age population will dramatically decline, in others...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162988
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Education-occupation mismatch of migrants in the Italian labour market : the effect of social networks
Van Wolleghem, Pierre Georges; De Angelis, Marina; … - 2019
natives. Over the last years, scholarship has intended to capture the effect of informal networks on migrants’ over-education …. Interestingly, no study has looked into the Italian case, yet a country for which the effect of networks on education …-occupation mismatch is well documented. This article has two objectives: it assesses the extent to which over-education affects migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149215
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I won't make the same mistake again : burnout history and job preferences
Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn; Moens, Eline; Derous, Eva - 2022
The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for individual careers have received little attention. In this study, we investigate whether recently burned-out individuals and persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout...
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