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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...

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Berufliche Weiterbildung in Zeiten von Corona : kein dramatischer Einbruch, aber deutliche gruppenspezifische Unterschiede

Flake, Regina; Janssen, Simon; Leschnig, Lisa; Malin, Lydia - 2021

Trotz der coronabedingten Kontaktbeschränkungen war die Beteiligung an beruflicher Weiterbildung bis zum Sommer 2020 nicht massiv zurückgegangen. Denn ein Großteil der Maßnahmen konnte dank entsprechender digitaler Angebote dennoch stattfinden. Je nach Beschäftigungsbranche,...

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To work or to study? : postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment

Damelang, Andreas; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020

In this article, we analyze individual factors and situational conditions under which immigrants are more or less likely to invest in host country-specific human capital. Theoretically, we root our expectations in a strand of the immigrant human capital investment model combined with a basic...

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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017

This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel...

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Where do STEM graduates stem from? : the intergenerational transmission of comparative skill advantages

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023

The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...

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Where do STEM graduates stem from? : the intergenerational transmission of comparative skill advantages

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2023

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Fading shooting stars : the relative age effect, misallocation of talent, and returns to training in German elite youth soccer

Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2022

This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training. Our results indicate a strong effect of players' birth dates on their probability of getting selected - and, thus, a waste of...

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Agglomeration of knowledge in the German regional economy

Krenz, Astrid - 2016

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …

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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

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