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Just the Facts, Ma'am: Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the U.S.
Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop Velez, Erin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational...
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Is It Worth It? Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes for the Disadvantaged
Backes, Benjamin; Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop Velez, Erin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we examine a range of postsecondary education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on minorities and/or disadvantaged workers. We use administrative data from the state of Florida, where postsecondary student records have been linked to UI earnings data and also to...
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Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market
Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home … abroad, or return home to utilize the internationally acquired knowledge in the domestic labour market. In this paper we use …
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Is the labor market vulnerability of less-educated men really about job competition? : New insights from the United States
Gesthuizen, Maurice; Solga, Heike - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 47 (2014) 3, pp. 205-221
"There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an...
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Vocational training, SMEs and innovation in Navarre.
Olazaran, Mikel; Albizu, Eneka; Lavía, Cristina - In: Cuadernos de Gestión 13 (2013) 01, pp. 15-40
Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …
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Is the return to education the same for everybody?
Webber, Douglas - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) October, pp. 1-10
A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...
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Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa, 1994-2010
Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In this paper we document the impact of education levels on labour market outcomes from 1994 to 2010 using national household survey data. We show that higher levels of education are strongly rewarded in the labour market in terms of earnings and that a tertiary qualification improves an...
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Education Quality and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa
Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In this paper we include measures of school quality in regressions determining the labour market premiums to education level. We use the matric exemption score and the pupil/teacher ratio of the respondents’ closest school during childhood as proxies for education quality. We find that the...
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Parental Occupational Status And Labour Market Outcomes In Russia
Bessudnov, Alexey - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014
This paper looks at the effect of parental occupational status on their children’s occupational status and earnings in Russia. The analysis based on twelve surveys conducted from 1991 to 2011 (n=21,639) demonstrates a statistically significant effect of parental occupational status on...
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Could an Increase in Education Raise Income Inequality? Evidence for Latin America
Battistón, Diego; García-Domench, Carolina; … - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 51 (2014) 1, pp. 1-39
This paper explores the direct ef fect of an education expansion on the level of earnings inequality by carrying out microsimulations for most Latin American countries. We find that the direct ef fect of the increase in years of education in the region in the 1990s and 2000s was unequalizing;...
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