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expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries …. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …
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This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper...
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How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three types of capital: traditional physical capital...
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wages, the relationship between wages and health is less clear-cut. What makes it most difficult to disentangle these … effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient … status changes the estimation results dramatically. Still, we find that for both men and women in Europe education, actual …
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-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
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We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …
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This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education) has increased during economic crises....
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The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …
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