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educational transitions are correlated with earnings and returns to education. Proportions of people in age-education groups tend … to have negative associations with aggregated earnings. Workers with secondary education completed experience negative … effects on their earnings by having lower education than university graduates (education effect) and by representing a bigger …
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A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education … paper investigates the role of “qualitative” education-job matches in explaining these poor labor market outcomes. Using a …. Successful matching is also found to significantly improve the return to pre-migration education and work experience. …
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Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
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This paper studies the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. The paper show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker’s earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The...
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by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where …
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In recent decades, the number of university students worldwide who have received some part of their education abroad …
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Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008-2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill...
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The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mother and, at a macro level, for the country as a whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing...
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