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The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market : evidence from a public federal university in Brazil
Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2020
Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian university. The rule means that in almost 30 per...
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Size Matters : Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets
Moretti, Enrico; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Economists have long hypothesized that large and thick labor markets facilitate the matching between workers and firms. We use administrative data from the LEHD to compare the job search outcomes of workers originally in large and small markets who lost their jobs due to a firm closure. We...
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Are over-educated people insiders or outsiders? : a case of job search methods and over-education in UK
Kucel, Aleksander (contributor); Byrne, Delma (contributor) - 2008
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The early labour market effects of generally and vocationally oriented higher education : is there a trade-off?
Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the start of the career (when opting for a vocational orientation) and a lower risk of bad match...
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Informal unemployment and education
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-36
This paper develops a four-sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that underground activities reduce educational attainments if informal employment opportunities mainly are available for low-educated workers. A...
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Crowding out in the labour market : do employers lend a hand?
Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016
We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
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Schooling Investment in Frictional Labor Markets
Lee, Hakki - 2019
This paper studies how and to what extent labor market friction affects individuals' schooling decisions. High job-finding rates and low job separation rates encourage schooling investment by extending the expected duration for exploiting the accumulated human capital. High job-to-job transition...
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It Pays to Study for the Right Job : Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Education-Occupation Job Mismatch
Rios‐Avila, Fernando - 2019
workers' wages and to explore the factors that contribute to the existence of such mismatch among workers with higher … status, and even home-ownership affect the quality of horizontal mismatch as well …
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Horizontal mismatch in the labour market of graduates : the role of signalling
Domadenik, Polona; Farčnik, Daša; Pastore, Francesco - 2013
matched unique employer-employee dataset we report the extent of horizontal mismatch for graduates of different fields of … duration on the likelihood of a horizontal mismatch separately for each field of education. We find that graduates from …
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Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market
Salas-Velasco, Manuel - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the topic of horizontal education-job mismatch in the labor market … for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in … find a higher likelihood of horizontal mismatch among graduates of Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Pharmacy, and Languages …
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