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Skill premium and technological change in the very long run : 1300-1914
Luo, Rui - 2017
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Classroom rank in math, occupational choices and labor market outcomes
Brox, Enzo; Davoli, Maddalena; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014555929
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Should I stay or should I go? : career choices for young workers in Latin America
Martínez Heredia, Diana; Rucci, Graciana; Saltiel, Fernando - 2018
Labor market institutions shape the return to workers’ skills. They define the incentives of firms and workers to invest in general and specific skills, affecting the returns to experience and tenure. This paper presents an empirical assessment of this hypothesis. We take advantage of rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783922
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Who benefits from tuition-free, top-quality universities? : evidence from Brazil
Duryea, Suzanne; Ribas, Rafael Pérez; Sampaio, Breno; … - 2023
, low-income students are found to increase their earnings by 26% ten years later. However, admission has a small and … insignificant effect on high-income students. The difference between income groups is not explained by educational attainment …, program choice, or selection into better-paying jobs. The evidence suggests that most low-income applicants, if not admitted …
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Anatomy of lifetime earnings inequality : heterogeneity in job ladder risk vs. human capital
Karahan, Fatih; Ozkan, Serdar; Song, Jae - 2022
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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...
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Horizontal mismatch and vocational education
Schweri, Jürg; Eymann, Annina; Aepli, Manuel - 2019
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The gender labor market gap in the digital economy
Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Viollaz, Mariana - 2019
Recent years have seen an ever-greater expansion of the digital economy, a development that may bring new opportunities to workers who were at a disadvantage in the traditional economy. We focus on a specific set of workers who belong to such a group: women. We study a skill set of particular...
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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024
Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...
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