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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201
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Prior work experience and entrepreneurship : the careers of young entrepreneurs
Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023
I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have previously worked in high-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279932
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971651
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Ability Matching and Occupational Choice
James, Jonathan - 2011
growth, with those with the lowest levels of education achieving the largest increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176997
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The Effect of Match Quality and Specific Experience on Career Decisions and Wage Growth
Yamaguchi, Shintaro - 2009
This paper constructs and estimates a career decision model where individuals search for both career matching and employer matching to understand wage growth and career mobility using the NLSY79. It departs from previous papers in that career mobility decisions and participation decisions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054567
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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
strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521985
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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507364
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Unequal Opportunities and Human Capital Formation
Mejía, Daniel; St-Pierre, Marc - 2021
This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318771
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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130639
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and … it appears the result of both a glass ceiling effect, due to the complementarity between parental education and son …
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