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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413337
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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414731
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The labor market consequences of impatience : some people would be happier if they were required to stay in school longer or search harder for a job while unemployed
Cadena, Brian C. - 2016
Standard economic theory suggests that individuals know best how to make themselves happy. Thus, policies designed to encourage "better" behaviors will only reduce people's happiness. Recently, however, economists have explored the role of impatience, especially difficulties with delaying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434104
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Higher education expansion and labor market outcomes for young college graduates
Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449778
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Health shocks, human capital, and labor market outcomes
Parro, Francisco; Pohl, R. Vincent - 2018
Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked though complex connections that are not fully understood. We explore these links by estimating a flexible yet tractable dynamic model of human capital accumulation in the presence of health shocks using administrative data from Chile....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890108
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Human capital and employment risks diversification
St.-Amour, Pascal - 2015 - Current version: June 8, 2015
Both educational expenditures and attainment have increased sharply over the last decades, despite rising prices of education, and stagnating income returns to human capital. This paper emphasizes conditional employment risks diversification as additional motivation for education demand. Job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410698
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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment : evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020
In this article, we investigate the role of several types of educational mismatch in explaining labour market transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job changes, to assess whether mismatch is a temporary or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158785
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Parental job loss and children's careers
Huttunen, Kristiina; Riukula, Krista - 2019
We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138694
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
increased from 0.19 to 0.30 beginning the college market deregulation. These estimation consider a twofold effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427813
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The Gender Gap Reloaded : Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2005
This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and …, but it is less so for the two minority groups. We confirm significant gender disparities in wages favoring men across … three surveys in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 that are unaccounted for. While the unexplained gender gap is evident across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784109