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The determinants of immigrants’ skill composition
Karapınar Kocağ, Esra; Li, Yutong; Popescu, Cristina … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 9, pp. 1-18
Movements of labor across the world is an ongoing debate in the literature in terms of its drivers and results in sending and receiving areas. Skill composition of immigrant labor has been discussed by several papers, although they generally focused on visa policies or firm level productivity....
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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017
We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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Inequalities in adolescent learning : does the timing and persistence of food insecurity at home matter?
Aurino, Elisabetta; Fledderjohann, Jasmine; Vellakkal, … - In: Economics of education review 70 (2019), pp. 94-108
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Bildung oder Begabung? : ökonometrische Untersuchungen zu den Ursachen individueller Lohnunterschiede
Suter, Stephan - 2006 - 1. Aufl.
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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
overeducated, occupying non-professional and sub-paid positions. We propose that the deterioration in higher education quality has … analyzes its causes related to labor demand. The main objective is to explore and quantify the extent to which higher education … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …
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Labor market returns and the evolution of cognitive skills : theory and evidence
Hermo, Santiago; Päällysaho, Miika; Seim, David; … - 2021
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Overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago's labour market : a quantile regression approach
Doon, Roshnie - 2021
This study examines the impact that over-education has on the earnings of private and public sector workers in Trinidad …
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
productivity developments and help businesses to weather the COVID-19 shock. Building on the population’s solid education levels by … substantial boost to professional education and training at all levels and ages. This chapter applies the 2018 OECD Jobs Strategy …
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Literacy and numeracy of overeducated and undereducated workers : revisiting the allocation process in the labour market
Grunau, Philipp - In: Education economics 28 (2020) 4, pp. 403-417
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