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Grade inflation, social background, and labour market matching
Schwager, Robert (contributor) - 2008
based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low …
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Grade inflation, social background, and labour market matching
Schwager, Robert - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 82 (2012) 1, pp. 56-66
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Qualifikatorisches (Mis)matching und die Ausnutzung von fachlichen Kenntnissen und Fähigkeiten von Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland : zur Bedeutung von Personen- und Arbeitsplatzmerkm...
Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119
/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis …
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Are Poles stuck in overeducation? : individual dynamics of educational mismatch in Poland
Baran, Jan Aleksander - In: Baltic journal of economics 24 (2024) 1, pp. 145-179
The paper investigates the short-run job mobility of educationally mismatched workers, examining the validity of the Sicherman-Galor hypothesis, which predicts that overeducation is a temporary condition from a worker's perspective associated with higher upward occupational and wage mobility....
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The changing situation of loabor market entrants in Germany : a long-run analysis of wages and occupational patterns
Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
Concurrently with a steady increase of the supply of college educated workers, recent evidence for the U.S. indicated a decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive,...
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Redistribution or Education? The Political Economy of the Social Race
Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2021
In an overlapping generations model with two social classes, rich and poor, parents of the different social classes vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investment for their children. Public education is the engine for growth through its effect on human capital; but...
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The effects of graduating from high school in a recession : college investments, skill formation, and labor-market outcomes
Hampf, Franziska; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2020
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...
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The Banning of Grade Inflation Can Distort Information
Chung, Barick - 2010
Does a ban on grade inflation bring about better information transmission? This paper studies grade inflation in a framework in which a sender (the professor) sends a signal (GPA's) about the students' knowledge to receivers (employers in the job market). If students' ability increases annually,...
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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence
Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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