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period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …
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theory and empirical research. It is about education and health, i.e. the educational qualifications of employees and their … statistical significance, but higher education qualifications have proved to be an indicator of human capital with the greatest …
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I show that labor mobility affects the timing of a firm's decision to go public. Employees of private firms compensated with stock options face high separation costs. They have to exercise or forfeit their option grants shortly after termination, which can force them to stay with the firm until...
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While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the...
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This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labour productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
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I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence …
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This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market … importance of relative education as an explanatory variable in a Mincerian- style wage equation. I find the conclusions of this … method to be dependent on the reference group used in defining relative education. Consequently also the second method yields …
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sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …
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