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Educational mismatches of newly hired workers : sort and medium-run effects on wages
Araújo, Isabel; Carneiro, Anabela - 2020
under scrutiny overeducation is decreasing and undereducation is increasing, indicating that labour market demand is keeping … mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286352
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Getting stuck in the status quo ante : evidence from the Egyptian economy
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In this study, for the first time, to our knowledge, we use the propensity score matching algorithm to estimate the probability to remain 'stuck in the status-quo ante' across generations in Egypt. We use repeated cross-sectional data relative to a 20-year period from 1998 to 2018 to build...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796996
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Why do parents under invest in their children's education? : evidence from China
Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022
In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801886
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Stuck at a crossroads? : the duration of the Italian school-to-work transition
Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2020
Purpose - There is a long period from completing studies to finding a permanent or temporary (but at least satisfactory) job in all European countries, especially in Mediterranean countries, including Italy. This paper aims to study the determinants of this duration and measure them, for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241808
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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to … discriminate between alternative theoretical interpretations of the determinants of overeducation through the Heckman sample … provide the most comprehensive, accurate and reliable assessment of overeducation in the country. The educational mismatch 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109085
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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113803
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Getting it right : youth employment policy within the EU
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay discusses the determinants of youth unemployment within the EU and then the alternative policy options currently at stake. We argue that youth unemployment regards especially some peripheral EU countries and is due to a mix of factors that should be addressed more vigorously, starting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113864
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Much ado about nothing? : the wage penalty of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2017
This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job …, overeducation, overskilling and dissatisfaction with the use of skills. We find that overeducation and skills dissatisfaction are … report overeducation and skills dissatisfaction experience a particularly high wage penalty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108718
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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders : an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018
The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing … conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead, observes the heterogeneity of the overeducation penalty along the hourly wage … Recentered Influence Function. The results reveal that overeducation hits the wages of those Ph.D. holders who are employed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130684
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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives
Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018
The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …, the paper tests the robustness of the results by employing two different measures of overeducation, contributing to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131220