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career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of a postdoc in a life-cycle perspective of transitions from academic … there is quite a strong confidence to succeed in an academic career. Furthermore, postdocs who attended a PhD program show … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …
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overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary graduates over the first ten years of their career cycle. Accounting for … persistence of overqualification. In particular, selection into initial overqualification at the start of the career is of high …
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This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
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Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...
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-towork transitions, prompting the provision of intensive career guidance in school. In a case study for the City of Freiburg, this paper … analyzes skill formation, career guidance, and the first transition after graduation for LTSS students in the late 2000s. We … observable at the end of grade 7 have a strong predictive power on the transition after graduation, and focusing career guidance …
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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...
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In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...
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This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of … women's labor supply is endogenously determined, whereas men's employment histories can be treated as exogenous. Career …
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distinguish between the earnings impact of external and internal training. For our analysis, we use the "Qualification and Career …
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Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational …
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