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Wage losses due to overqualification : the role of formal degrees and occupational skills
Kracke, Nancy; Reichelt, Malte; Vicari, Basha - 2017
. We test two explanations, namely, formal overqualification and a mismatch of occupational skills. By using the National … mismatches. By using fixed-effects models, we confirm that overqualification is associated with a wage loss of approximately 5 … explain the wage loss of the formal overqualification of employees with vocational training. For academics, both types of …
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Experimental evidence on the long-term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program. The empirical analysis estimates labor market impacts six years after the training including long-term - labor market trajectories of young people - and, to the best of our...
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Impact evaluation of the job youth training program Projoven
Díaz, Juan José; Rosas, David - 2016
This paper brings new evidence on the impact of The Peruvian Job Youth Training Program (Projoven). Compared with prior evaluations of the program, this one has several advantages. This is the first experimental impact evaluation of Projoven, and also the first to measure impacts over a longer...
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Educational Outcomes, Gender and Body Weight : Evidence from Italy
Barone, Adriana - 2017
This study examines the relationship between body weight and academic performance, focusing on gender differences and using survey data from students at the University of Salerno in Italy. Our findings indicate a significant negative relationship between body weight and academic performance,...
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns on Schooling : An Exercise in IV Estimation with Different Instruments
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Ichino, Andrea - 1999
Many recent studies that were based on "exogenous" sources of variation in education outcomes' IV estimates of returns to schooling were substantially higher than the corresponding OLS estimates. Card (1995a) suggests that these results are explained by the existence of heterogeneity in...
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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War Ii
Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002
An important component of the long run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by school age children who receive less education because of the war. We show that Austrian and German individuals who were ten years old during or immediately after the conflict received less education...
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling : An Exercise in IV Estimation with Different Instruments
Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000
Several recent studies based on "exogenous" sources of variation in education outcomes show Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the corresponding Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates. Card (1995a) suggests that these results can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207425
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Improving school-to-work transitions in New Zealand
Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2013
The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes
Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019
The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138464
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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes
Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019
The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140024