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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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We document that home ownership of households with heads aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001{2005 housing boom. The 1980{2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities made it easier to...
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; first-time home-buyers ; marriage ; income risk …
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women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation. We … observed minority-majority differences in behavior can be attributed to differences in labor market opportunities, marriage …
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supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …
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This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...
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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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Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion in Indonesia to estimate the returns to schooling. Under the study's difference-in-differences (DID) design, two patterns in the data-shallower pay scales for younger workers and negative selection in treatment-can violate the parallel trends...
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people in education, is also linked to the overall decline in youth unemployment. Finally, as regards education, the results … indicate that the number of years of education, the number of young people with vocational training and, to a lesser extent … a well-functioning education system and labour market institutions that do not introduce distortions into the labour …
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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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