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Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2006
combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure for the appropriateness of the match between qualification and the job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779027
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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S
Borghans, Lex - 2010
Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non …-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134818
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Mobility Across Firms and Occupations Among Graduates from Apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2015
variation in regional labor market characteristics. Pure firm changes and occupation-and-job changes after graduation from …. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023392
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Overeducation : A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System
Caroleo, Floro E. - 2015
This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While technological change and globalization have entailed a skill-bias in the evolution of labour demand in the Anglo-Saxon countries, instead, in other advanced economies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022653
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No Education, No Good Jobs?Evidence on the Relationship betweenEducation and Labor Market Segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs andself-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately atthe markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature ofthe latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861351
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Default Options and Training Participation
Borghans, Lex - 2013
This paper analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086208
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Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?
Borghans, Lex - 2013
This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. The results are strongest among males and those with low educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074206
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Post-Secondary Education in Canada : Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap between College and University Graduates?
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2007
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776921
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The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2006
In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of enrollment in community colleges on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779229
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A Large-Scale Validation Study of Measurement Errors in Longitudinal Survey Data
Kristensen, Nicolai - 2006
In this paper, we analyze measurement and classification errors in several key variables, including earnings and educational attainment, in a matched sample of survey and administrative longitudinal data. The data, spanning 1994-2001 and covering all sectors in the Danish economy, are much more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779233