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Work organization and high-paying jobs
Nelson, Dylan; Wilmers, Nathan; Zhang, Letian - 2024
High-paying factory jobs in the 1940s were an engine of egalitarian economic growth for a generation. Are there alternate forms of work organization that deliver similar benefits for frontline workers? Work organization varies by type of complexity and degree of employer control. Technical and...
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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary
Varga, Júlia - 2003
This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their choices, a function of expected net lifetime earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521985
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
equipping workers with the skills needed by the labour market can support employment and incomes. This will require a …
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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
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Skills and the graduate recruitment process : evidence from two discrete experiments
Humburg, Martin; Velden, Rolf van der - 2014
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Personality and field of study choice
Humburg, Martin - 2014
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427813
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - 2013
fluent English skills are found. Returns to occupational use of other foreign languages are, if anything, restricted to a few … occupations that involve international factor flows. In such occupations it is likely that migrants can apply complementary skills …
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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
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The relation between skills and job security : identifying the contractual return to skills
Diris, Ron; Vliet, Olaf van - 2022
estimate how skills relate to the odds of obtaining a permanent contract, versus alternative contractual arrangements for … employees. Our pooled analysis shows that skills substantially relate to having a permanent contract across the full sample …. Numeracy skills contribute more than literacy skills; a difference that is largely driven by sorting to occupations and …
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