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work experience may also improve employment opportunities and increase wages after the graduation. This study examines how … significant changes in the Finnish labor market. The study finds that in-school work experience increases graduates' earnings at … the beginning of the career, but there are no statistically significant persistent effects on employment or earnings after …
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earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …
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reduction in earnings is likely due to the reduction in education. …
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workers' wages and to explore the factors that contribute to the existence of such mismatch among workers with higher …
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This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major …, we find that the wages of people aged under 35 basically depend on the level of education attained, while those of …
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This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schoolingemployment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. Over 'typical' years deteriorating job rates increase the probability of attending school and decrease the...
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This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …
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This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are …
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The diffusion of evaluation programs, along with the higher stake they account for, has also increased the prevalence of opportunistic behavior and cheating practices. This paper investigates the efficacy of different policy measures aimed at fighting cheating behaviors in schools. We exploit a...
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affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered … implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …
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