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This paper explores how a conditional cash transfer program influences students’ schooling decisions when program payments stop in the middle of the school career. To that end, I examine Mexico’s Progresa, which covered students only until the end of middle school (at age 15) in its early...
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unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education. …
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We propose a dynamic factor model which we use to analyze the relationship between education participation and national … unemployment, as well as to forecast the number of students across the many different types of education. By clustering the factor … loadings associated with the dynamic macroeconomic factor, we can measure to what extent the different types of education …
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Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
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In this paper we study the allocation of workers over high and low productivity firms in a labor market with coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase...
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This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations (the labor adjustment lag) that is visible in US data since the mid-1980s. We show that a lagged labor adjustment response is optimal in a setting where there is uncertainty about the...
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The COVID-19 crisis may have widely and permanently altered the labor market through the demand for skills. Crises tend … generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with routine skills, known as job polarization. This study finds that the … acceleration of the importance of digital skills rather than abstract thinking skills. Post-pandemic trends up to 2023Q4 indicate …
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We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether the commute has a positive effect on worker's absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about 0.07....
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …
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language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job … satisfaction. We use subjective survey information about job satisfaction and the fit between the migrant's education and skill …
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