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Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. "Training contracts" that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using plausibly exogenous contractual variation from a leading trucking firm, we...
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. In this model, human capital is interpreted as information. We show that equilibrium exists and is efficient and that it …
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universities possess private information. Ex ante mismatch occurs when revelation of this information would have changed the … information that is a statistically significant predictor of students’ post-enrollment academic performance. Further, this private … information is shown to affect the subjective measures of students’ satisfaction as well as their persistence in more difficult …
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We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …
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In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese educational system. At each potential exit level we consider two decisions: the decision to continue studying and the employment decision, whereas normally only the first decision...
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that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent … multiple sources of observed and unobserved heterogeneity we find little evidence that the quality of matching increases with …. -- agglomeration ; matching ; fixed-effects …
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Betriebsdaten zusammengefügten Datensatzes, für West-Deutschland (1994-1997) untersucht. Schätzungen der bedingten Arbeitsnachfrage …
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