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...

The Canadian labour market suffered a severe blow during the last recession, with more than 430,000 persons losing their jobs and the unemployment rate reaching levels unseen since the latter half of the 1990s. Subsequently, the labour market has shown great resilience, and there are now 900,000...

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...

Changes in economic systems provide a rare opportunity to redesign basic institutional structures in labor markets. This paper attempts to provide guidance for such institutional choice by drawing on the findings of recent labor market research in market economies on the links between...

Studying the transition means analyzing the interactions between institutions and structural change, a process we still know very little about. In this paper we show that the transitional process has been very different in the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and those of the Central...

Studying the transition means analyzing the interactions between institutions and structural change, a process we still know very little about. In this paper we show that the transitional process has been very different in the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and those of the Central...