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Varieties of capitalism and labour market opportunities for the youth : a comparison of attitudes towards skill formation
Hörisch, Felix; Tosun, Jale; Erhardt, Julian; Maloney, … - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 9 (2020) 3, pp. 232-251
market opportunity structures and their employment attitudes (i.e. skills and retraining). Building on the varieties of … to regard firm- and industry-specific skills as more important than their peers in liberal market economies (LMEs). To … countries: the United Kingdom (UK), which represents a typical liberal market economy, and Austria, Denmark, Germany and …
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Education Mismatch, Human Capital and Labour Status of Young People Across European Union Countries
Pompei, Fabrizio; Selezneva, Ekaterina - 2015
This paper analyses the influence of country-level education mismatch on the individual-level relationship between education and the probability of being unemployed or staying in alternative labour statuses. Young people aged 15–34 in 2006, 2008 and 2010, and living in 21 EU countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134230
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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult … rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the estimation of the effect of overeducation on earnings. Oaxaca …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451997
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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries
Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024
Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484538
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Educational qualifications and wage inequality : evidence for Europe
Budría, Santiago (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115149
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Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality : Evidence for Europe
Budría, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2021
This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318244
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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022
unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163647
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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022
unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041426
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Education mismatch, human capital and labour status of young people across European Union countries
Pompei, Fabrizio; Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2015
This paper analyses the influence of country-level education mismatch on the individual-level relationship between education and the probability of being unemployed or staying in alternative labour statuses, for young people aged 15-34 in 2006, 2008 and 2010, living in 21 EU countries. We assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298528
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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe : the role of education and cognitive skills
Cim, Merve; Kind, Michael Sebastian; Kleibrink, Jan - 2017
Occupational mismatch is a wide-spread phenomenon among immigrants in many European countries. Mismatch, predominantly measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect comparability of international educational degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632140