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research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …
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research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565210
We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") occupations. By contrast, employment in blue-collar occupations is hardly affected by fiscal stimulus...
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inequality. The total variance surged by 10 log points, with 55% occurring between industries, particularly in a few low …-paid service sectors. Workers with low earnings ability showed increased likelihood of working in industries with low average firm …, inequality increased predominantly between industries and concentrated within a small number of sectors. Italy's increase …
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applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive … workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …
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applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive … workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959774
While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the quasi-experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to investigate how...
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This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time faculty and staff members at a public university in the United States, we study the impact of this...
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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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This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous...
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