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Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

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Catching up is hard to do : undergraduate prestige, elite graduate programs, and the earnings premium

Hersch, Joni - 2019

A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...

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

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

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...

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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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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022

This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...

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Do women fare worse when men are around? : quasi-experimental evidence

Gomez-Ruiz, Marcela; Cervini-Plá, María; Ramos … - 2024

We investigate the impact of a change in the gender composition of the pool of candidates on the academic performance of women in an entrance exam. We use data from a natural experiment that altered the gender composition of the candidates for a nation-wide admission exam to a coding educational...

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Segmented life-cycle labor markets : Portuguese evidence

Martins, Ana Paula - 2011

The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of...

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Are older workers worthy of their pay? : an empirical investigation of age-productivity and age-wage nexuses

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Varejão, José M. - 2010

Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...

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Innovation, wages, and polarization in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Su, Yaqin; Zhao, … - 2018

Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...

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Social capital and innovation - can social trust explain the technological innovation of the high-performing East Asian eonomies?

Cho, Seo-Young - 2018

low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation …. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that the role of social capital in innovation is different in East Asia …-based incentives are the most essential driving-force of innovation in the East Asian countries, whereas social trust does not play a …

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