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To my wife, with love!: Does within-household specialisation explain husbands' better job-education-match?

Wirz, Aniela - 2004

Married male workers are found to have a lower incidence of overeducation. A theoretical explanation for this phenomenon is lacking. We test in our study whether the traditional specialisation of spouses' time between home and market production tends to improve a husband's jobeducation-match...

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Overeducation in the Swiss labour market: Does anything go wrong?

Wirz, Aniela; Atukeren, Erdal - 2004

We examine the determinants of overeducation in Switzerland - an economy generally characterised by excess qualified labor demand. We define those who are overeducated more precisely, and include in our sample only those who work in occupations relating to their educational background. Failing...

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Testing the growth effects of structural change

Hartwig, Jochen - 2010

Against the backdrop of Baumol's model of unbalanced growth, a recent strand of literature has presented models that manage to reconcile structural change with Kaldor's stylized fact of the relative constancy of per-capita GDP growth. Another strand of literature goes beyond this, arguing that...

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Measurement of labor quality growth: Caused by unobservable characteristics

Zurlinden, Mathias; Bolli, Thomas - 2008

The standard economy-wide indices of labor quality (or human capital) largely ignore the role of unobservable worker characteristics. In this paper, we develop a methodology for identifying the contributions of both observable and unobservable worker characteristics in the presence of the...

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On gender inequality and life satisfaction: Does discrimination matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 … are more satisfied with increasing equality independent of income and political ideology. Equality in economic and family …

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Are recruiters reluctant to hire parttime working men? Evidence from online labor market data

Kopp, Daniel - 2022

Part-time work is a popular way to reconcile work and family obligations. This study uses large-scale observational … whether this depends on the gender of a jobseeker. First, I relate the number of hours stated on job advertisements to the … gender preferences of firms indicated in a confidential online form. Second, I analyze hiring decisions of recruiters who …

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The Swiss vocational education and training system: What can Spain learn from Switzerland?

Egg, Maria Esther; Renold, Ursula - 2015

Switzerland is famous for its vocational education and training (VET) system. This article describes Switzerland's success in integrating adolescents into the labour market, with emphasis on two aspects. First, dual-track VET, which combines learning at school and in host companies, is an...

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Comparative advantages of school and workplace environment in competence acquisition: Empirical evidence from a survey among professional tertiary education and training students i...

Bolli, Thomas; Renold, Ursula - 2015

This paper sheds light on the questions how important competences are and which competences can best be learned at school and which competences can be acquired better in the workplace. Exploiting data from a survey among professional tertiary education and training business administration...

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Meet the need: The role of vocational education and training for the youth labour market

Bolli, Thomas; Egg, Maria Esther; Rageth, Ladina - 2017

To fight negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world foster vocational education and training programmes (VET). We therefore investigate how the share of three upper secondary education programmes, i.e. general education, school-based VET, and dual VET, affect the...

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Evaluating the impact of employment protection on firm-provided training in an RDD framework

Bolli, Thomas; Kemper, Johanna - 2017

This paper tests the hypothesis that employment protection legislation (EPL) increases the incentives of firms to train their employees. The identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits exemptions of small firms from EPL. Using firm-level data from Finland...

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