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Crowding Out in the Labour Market: Do Employers Lend a Hand?

Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016

We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...

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The Changing Nature of the School-to-Work Transition Process in OECD Countries

Quintini, Glenda; Martin, John P.; Martin, Sébastien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Despite the fact that today’s young cohorts are smaller in number and better educated than their older counterparts, high youth unemployment remains a serious problem in many OECD countries. This reflects a variety of factors, including the relatively high proportion of young people leaving...

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation …

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Misalignment of Productivity and Wages across Regions? Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2016

differentials are ceteris paribus relatively well aligned across regions. …

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The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand

Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016

This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...

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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels …. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or …

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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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Personal and Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities: Empirical Evidence from the REM Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - 2002

that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the … for 10.000 persons from a recent representative survey of the population in ten German planning regions, the Regional … entrepreneurial experience, who live in more densely populated and faster growing regions with higher rates of new firm formation …

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Rates of return to degrees across British regions

O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2006

classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the … Labour Force Survey. We find substantial variations in the financial rewards available to graduates across regions with much …

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