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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 … those generated by well-known education inputs, such as parental education and teacher quality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544177
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The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022
smaller economic returns, such as education and humanities degrees, especially for men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805387
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Changes Across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences
Ashworth, Jared - 2018
of the returns to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930956
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Wage losses due to overqualification : the role of formal degrees and occupational skills
Kracke, Nancy; Reichelt, Malte; Vicari, Basha - 2017
Wage penalties in overqualified employment are well documented, but little is known regarding the underlying mechanisms. We test two explanations, namely, formal overqualification and a mismatch of occupational skills. By using the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) survey that is linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630745
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Changes across cohorts in wage returns to schooling and early work experiences
Ashworth, Jared; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2018
of the returns to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117593
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor … risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …, and regional labor market context. The gains are highest for middle-aged men with formal vocational education working in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413337
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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor … risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …, and regional labor market context. The gains are highest for middle-aged men with formal vocational education working in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414731
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013550210
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Can vocational education improve schooling and labour outcomes? : evidence from a large expansion
Ferreira, João R.; Martins, Pedro S. - 2023
We evaluate the education and labour impact of vocational education and training (VET). Identification draws on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366880