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Are Recessions Good for Government Hires? The Effect of Unemployment on Public Sector Human Capital

Zhang, Congshan - 2018

persistent wage effect of entering government employment during recessions for recent college graduates and other new employees …

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Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market … for graduates. The principal finding is that the longitudinal/cohort earnings profile for college graduates flattened … markedly relative to that for high school graduates in the 1970s. With smaller growth rates of earnings for the college …

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The Importance of Being an Optimist : Evidence from Labor Markets

Kaniel, Ron - 2014

Dispositional optimism is a personality trait associated with individuals who believe, either rightly or wrongly, that in general good things tend to happen to them more often than bad things. Using a novel longitudinal data set that tracks the job search performance of MBA students, we show...

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Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates Following the Great Recession

Abel, Jaison R. - 2016

graduates continued to climb, reaching highs not seen since the early 1990s. In this paper, we take a closer look at the jobs … held by underemployed college graduates in the early stages of their careers during the first few years after the Great … Recession. Contrary to popular perception, we show that relatively few recent graduates were working in low-skilled service jobs …

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From Theory to Practice : Field Experimental Evidence on Early Exposure of Engineering Majors to Professional Work

Boudreau, Kevin - 2019

Young workers typically enter the professional labor market only after completing higher education. We investigate how earlier professional work experience affects skilled worker development. In a field experiment, 1,787 Engineering majors were randomly assigned to 6-month work terms to begin...

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Gainfully Employed? Assessing the Employment and Earnings of For-Profit College Students Using Administrative Data

Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - 2016

We draw on population-level administrative data from the U.S. Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the employment and earnings of over one million students. Using a matched comparison group difference-in-differences...

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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program : Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021

This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...

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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2010

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization entails, necessarily but not exclusively, positive...

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Correcting Perceived Social Distancing Norms to Combat Covid-19

Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, James; … - 2021

Can informing people of high community support for social distancing encourage them to do more of it? In theory, the impact of such an intervention on social distancing is ambiguous, and depends on the relative magnitudes of free-riding and perceived-infectiousness effects. We randomly assigned...

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Subsidies and the African Green Revolution : Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique

Carter, Michael R. - 2019

The Green Revolution bolstered agricultural yields and rural well-being in Asia and Latin America, but bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers...

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