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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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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2009
This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of two alternative training schemes for the unemployed: short, job-search oriented training and long, human capital oriented training. We investigate the impact dynamics of these programs considering both unemployment and employment duration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153023
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Earnings Over the Life Course : General versus Vocational Education
Golsteyn, Bart - 2017
Two common hypotheses regarding the relative benefits of vocational versus general education are (1) that vocational skills enhance relative short-term earnings and (2) that general skills enhance relative long-term earnings. Empirical evidence for these hypotheses has remained limited. Based on...
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Vocational vs. General Education and Employment Over the Life-Cycle : New Evidence from PIAAC
Hampf, Franziska - 2016
It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm such a trade-off over the life-cycle in a difference-in-differences model that compares employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980302
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001874
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997443
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Children and Parents Time Use : Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2021
countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324799
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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes : Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2010
The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139717
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Labor Productivity and Vocational Training : Evidence from Europe
Sala, Hector - 2011
In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to what extent vocational training has contributed to increase the growth rate of labor productivity in Europe between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117615
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The Quiet Revolution and the Family : Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns
Bicakova, Alena - 2014
It is well known that highly 'female' fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility. However, existing work does not disentangle the selection-causality nexus. We use variation in gender composition of fields of study implied by the recent expansion of tertiary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058304