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Grads on the Go : Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state....
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A theory of social forces and immigrant second language acquisition
DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000
The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...
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Higher Education Quality, Opportunity Costs and Labor Market Outcomes
Ordine, Patrizia - 2009
This paper studies educational choices in a signaling setting in segmented labor markets. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous working ability imperfectly correlated with schooling costs, equilibria characterized by overeducation may arise. The quality of education is crucial in...
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Dodging a draft: Gary Becker's lost paper on conscription
Gibbs, Michael; Perri, Timothy J. - 2021
Gary Becker wrote what may be the first economic analysis of conscription. Less than a decade later, economists played … military draft. Becker had connections to many of those economists who studied the economics of conscription, and his paper … foreshadowed many of the ideas in that literature. Despite this, none cited his paper on conscription. We discuss this history and …
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A Nordic model of gender and military work? : labour demand, gender equality and women's integration in the armed forces of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Ahlbäck, Anders; Sundevall, Fia; Hjertquist, Johanna - In: Scandinavian economic history review 72 (2024) 1, pp. 49-66
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Chapter 13 The economics of military manpower
Warner, John T. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 1, (pp. 347-398). 1995
surveyed include the supply of personnel, personnel productivity and the demand for personnel, procurement by conscription …
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Dragon Slaying and Dyke Building - How Does Ambiguity Affect Individual Behaviour?
le Roux, Sara - 2013
This paper reports experiments conducted to test whether ambiguity affects individual behaviour in games of strategic complements and strategic substitutes. We study subject behaviour in the presence of ambiguity in order to ascertain whether subjects' perception of ambiguity differs between a...
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What Do Employers' Associations Do?
Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
While trade unions have been studied in detail, there is virtually no economics research on employer associations (EAs), their counterparts in many countries. Here we argue that EAs are important economic agents as they provide sectoral public goods such as collective bargaining, training, and...
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Aktive Leistungen nach dem SGB II als Dienstleistungsprozess. Eine qualitative Analyse der Hartz-IV-Reform auf Basis von Interviews mit Betroffenen
Olejniczak, Michael - Rainer Hampp Verlag
Die Hartz-Reformen waren ein tiefer Eingriff in die Struktur der sozialen Sicherung in Deutschland. Mit der letzten Stufe, der Hartz-IV-Reform, wurde das Sozialgesetzbuch II im Jahr 2005 in Kraft gesetzt. Die Zulassung alternativer Organisationsformen – Arbeitgemeinschaften aus Kommunen und...
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Jobcenters' strategies to promoting the inclusion of immigrant and native job seekers : a comparative analysis based on PASS survey data
Lehweß-Litzmann, René; Söhn, Janina - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
This paper comparatively analyzes strategies of German Jobcenters to bring native and immigrant job seekers into employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) from year 2015...
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