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Promotion signals, age and education
Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Melero, Eduardo - 2012
. -- promotion ; signaling ; internal labor markets … workers are assumed to come from a group with lower average ability. Their promotion is hypothesized to signal a larger … positive assessment of their ability than for more highly educated workers for whom promotion is expected. Promotions for …
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Promotion Signals, Age and Education
Bognanno, Michael L. - 2012
workers are assumed to come from a group with lower average ability. Their promotion is hypothesized to signal a larger … positive assessment of their ability than for more highly educated workers for whom promotion is expected. Promotions for … younger workers, with less known about their abilities, should also result in strong signaling effects. We find results in …
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters) between various combinations of school enrollment with different labor supply modalities and periods of school interruption devoted either to employment or home production and...
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The Unexpected Compression : Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market
Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid relative wage growth at the bottom of the distribution reduced the college wage premium and...
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Does it matter if immigrants work in jobs related to their education?
Dean, Jason - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 7, pp. 1-42
A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education, recent immigrants endure substantial earnings disadvantages upon arrival that persist throughout their working career. This paper investigates the role of “qualitative”...
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Educator incentives and educational triage in rural primary schools
Gilligan, Daniel O.; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Kasirye, Ibrahim - 2018
In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop out before reaching the end of primary school. These educators hope to avoid the negative...
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Structural estimates of the intergenerational education correlation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2003
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261663
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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption: Evidence from a "xeroxed" exam
Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all...
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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption : evidence from a "xeroxed" exam
Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009549671
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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319577