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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services - have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647677
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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services - have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113803
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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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The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectations and occupational choice strategies
Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016 - This draft: September 22, 2016
, however has not been identified empirically. I suggest that employment during adolescence promotes the formation of character …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554485
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A signal of diligence? : student work experience and later employment chances
Baert, Stijn; Rotsaert, Olivier; Verhaest, Dieter; … - 2015
We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than 1000 fictitious graduates applying for jobs in Belgium....
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Productivity versus motivation in adolescent human capital production : evidence from a structurally-motivated field experiment
Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent R.; List, John A.; … - 2020 - Original version: October 2020
We leverage a field experiment across three distinct school districts to identify key pieces of a structural model of adolescent human capital production. Our focus is inspired by the contemporary psychology of education literature, which expresses learning as a function of the ratio of the time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012384176
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Personality, IQ, and lifetime earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - 2014
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364493
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Education mismatch, human capital and labour status of young people across European Union countries
Pompei, Fabrizio; Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2015
. This outcome tells us that improving access to university degrees remains the main road to tackle youth unemployment caused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298528
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Education Mismatch, Human Capital and Labour Status of Young People Across European Union Countries
Pompei, Fabrizio; Selezneva, Ekaterina - 2015
educated youngsters. This outcome tells us that improving access to university degrees remains the main road to tackle youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134230