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Skill mismatch and returns to education in manufacturing : a case of India's textile and clothing industry
Kukreja, Prateek - 2018
coupled with unemployment or underemployment among highly educated workers. While a shortage of skills (or under-education) is … definitely a cause of concern, surplus education (or over-education) can also lead to underutilization of skills and further … the over-education/required education/undereducation (ORU) models on a cross section dataset of individuals employed (as a …
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Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan - 2009
This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intence competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical...
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Horizontal mismatch and vocational education
Schweri, Jürg; Eymann, Annina; Aepli, Manuel - 2019
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The effect of educational mismatch on wages using European panel data
Iriondo, Iñaki; Pérez Amaral, Teodosio - 2013
the depreciation of skills on human capital. The main policy implication of the paper is that overeducation constitutes a … waste of resources. Therefore public authorities should seek to reduce the negative impact of overeducation on the labor …
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Heterogeneous effects of mass academisation in England
Neri, Lorenzo; Pasini, Elisabetta - 2018
The 2010 primary school reform in the UK aimed at giving schools more autonomy and freedom from local council's control, by giving them the option to become academies. Once converted, schools need to choose between remaining a standalone academy or joining an academy chain. However, the majority...
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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2023
Delivery of vocational education in schools is a controversial issue around the world and attempts to improve it have been tried for decades. A substantive innovation in vocational education provision came about in 2010 in England when a new form of hybrid schools was introduced that combine...
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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017
We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added
Britton, Jack; Clark, Damon; Lee, Ines - 2023
We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...
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When emotion regulation matters : the efficacy of socio-emotional learning to address school-based violence in Central America
Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Egana-delSol, Pablo; Martínez … - 2024
After-school programs (ASP) that keep youth protected while engaging them in socio-emotional learning might address school-based violent behaviors. This paper experimentally studies the socio-emotional-learning component of an ASP targeted to teenagers in public schools in the most violent...
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High-tech clusters, technology spillovers, and trade secret laws
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - 2002
We analyze firms’ incentives to cluster in an industrial district to benefit from reciprocal technology spillovers. A simple model of cumulative innovation is presented where technology spillovers arise endogenously through labor mobility. It is shown that firms’ incentives to cluster are...
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