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Decomposing the effect of height on income in China : the role of market and political channels
Yamamura, Eiji; Smyth, Russell; Zhang, Yan - 2015
It is well known that height is positively associated with earnings. Based on individual level data, this paper … investigates the channels through which height influences income in China. Our first key finding is that taller people are more … likely to become members of the Communist Party, resulting in an increase in their income level. We label this the height …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488899
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Exposure to war and its labor market consequences over the life cycle
Braun, Sebastian; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We examine the impact of such wartime experiences on labor market careers and show that they often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249250
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Exposure to war and its labor market consequences over the life cycle
Braun, Sebastian; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We examine the impact of such wartime experiences on labor market careers and show that they often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013554737
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427813
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The early labour market effects of generally and vocationally oriented higher education : is there a trade-off?
Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the start of the career (when opting for a vocational orientation) and a lower risk of bad match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288534
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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs : A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP's, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118531
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Career Changers in Teaching Jobs : A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System
Hof, Stefani - 2011
This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122973
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Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market
Dejemeppe, Muriel; Delpierre, Matthieu; Pourtois, Mathilde - 2024
We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths, who are eligible from registration as a jobseeker or a few...
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Estimating returns to education when the IV sample is selective
Wang, Le - 2012
The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as instrument variables (IV). However, due to usual survey designs, both IVs are available only for the individuals whose spouse or parents are present in the same household. The IV...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683289
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The share of foreigners in one's occupation and attitudes towards foreigners
Pecoraro, Marco; Ruedin, Didier - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between attitudes towards foreigners and the share of foreigners at the occupational level. Using a question on equal opportunities for foreigners from the Swiss House-hold Panel, ordered probit regressions with standard controls show that: (a) there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011749353