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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285918
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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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The Supply of Foreign Talent : How Skill-Biased Technology Drives the Skill Mix of Immigrants Evidence From Switzerland 1990– 2010
Beerli, Andreas - 2019
An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower...
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The Impact of Apprenticeship Training on Personality Traits : An Instrumental Variable Approach
Bolli, Thomas; Hof, Stefanie - 2014
This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374365
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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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