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Understanding Peer Effects : On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
Feld, Jan - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
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The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships
Jansen, Anika - 2016
acquired more skills that are relevant for the firm and (2) firms' higher market power in the wage bargaining process with …
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College Majors and the Knowledge Content of Jobs
Freeman, James A. - 2008
College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage...
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The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School
Zölitz, Ulf - 2020
Business degrees are popular and lead to high earnings. Female business graduates, however, earn less than their male counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to high earnings. In this paper, we investigate...
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Does Ethnic Diversity in Schools Affect Occupational Choices?
Pregaldini, Damiano; Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
people-oriented occupations while ethnic polarization reduces this likelihood. Using data on social and cognitive skills, we … provide evidence that exposure to higher levels of ethnic fractionalization enhances the students' formation of social skills … and increases the likelihood of students sorting into people-oriented occupations where the returns to these skills are …
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The Geography of Occupational Choice : Empirical Evidence from the Swiss Apprenticeship Market
Kuhn, Andreas - 2022
This paper presents an empirical exploration of the geography of adolescents' occupational choices, using data covering a single cross-section of the population of all individual-level apprenticeship contracts in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The unique feature of the data is that they...
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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
Rycx, Francois - 2015
The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the...
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Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates are Defined
Light, Audrey - 2014
We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and, in turn, measures cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo (2010) find evidence of employer learning for high school graduates but not for college graduates,...
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The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Linked Panel Data
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2013
We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the period 1999-2006. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant unobserved workplace...
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Hille, Adrian - 2013
and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the … development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality, time use and ambition using representative data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and …
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