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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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Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko - 2022
We randomly assign applicants to over-subscribed programs to study the effects of teaching hard and soft skills in vocational training and examine their impacts on skills and labor market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. We find that providing vocational training that either...
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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession : Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2010
employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates with different predicted earnings using matched …. We find that young graduates entering the labor market in a recession suffer significant initial earnings losses that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760417
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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession : Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip; von Wachter, Till; Heisz, Andrew - 2021
employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates with different predicted earnings using matched …. We find that young graduates entering the labor market in a recession suffer significant initial earnings losses that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237962
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...
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Labor Market Implications of Education Mismatch
Varona, Carla; Cooper, Russell - 2022
This project studies the impact of education mismatch on labor outcomes. Across our sample of OECD countries, there is evidence of mismatch in educational attainment and labor markets. Labor market outcomes are not independent of education mismatch. Our framework for analysis is a dynamic choice...
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The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - 2012
experience earnings gains of about 10 percent relative to high school graduates with no college degree, conditional on employment …
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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times
Cutler, David M. - 2014
Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in education gradients in income, self-reported health, life satisfaction, obesity, smoking and drinking. While this variation has been documented previously, the reasons why the effect of education on income, health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053474
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Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools
Hoekstra, Mark - 2016
Despite strong demand for attending high schools with better peers, there is mixed evidence on whether doing so improves academic outcomes. We estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative data on a high-stakes college entrance exam in China. To overcome selection...
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