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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek - Uniwersytet Warszawski / Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych - 2016
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Are School-Provided Skills Useful at Work? Results of the Wiles Test
Liwinski, Jacek - 2017
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942083
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Human capital, signaling, and employer learning : what insights do we gain from regression discontinuity designs?
Graetz, Georg - 2017
similar credentials) on wages. Using a simple model of asymmetric information, I show that RDD estimates the information value … of a diploma. A positive information value arises if employers, unable to observe the test score that determines diploma … information value regardless of whether workers' productivity is solely determined by acquisition of knowledge and skills through …
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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001-2010
O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - In: Oxford economic papers 68 (2016) 4, pp. 945-967
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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001 - 2010
O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...
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Schooling supply and the structure of production : evidence from US states 1950―1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...
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Incentives for Schools, Educational Signals and Labour Market Outcomes
Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2006
Central exams have been discussed as an incentive to improve educational outcomes. In our paper we study the impact of central exams on labor market outcomes. We explain the quality choice of schools under central and non-central exams and model the resulting students' schooling decisions and...
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Should I stay or should I go? : educational choices and earnings ; an empirical study for Portugal
Modesto, Leonor - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339687
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Educational Choices and Earnings : An Empirical Study for Portugal
Modesto, Leonor - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321059
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Money or grit? : determinants of mismatch by race and gender
Cooper, Russell W.; Liu, Huacong - 2016
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