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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 …
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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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Does employer learning vary by occupation?
Mansour, Hani - 2010
independently from education and that the results are not driven by workers' occupational mobility. -- Wage dynamics ; occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974544
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The intergenerational transmission of occupational preferences, segregation, and wage inequality : empirical evidence from three countries
Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2012
Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....
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Job Mobility and the Market for Lawyers
Sauer, Robert M. - 1998
This paper studies the life cycle career choices of law school graduates using unique data from the University of Michigan Law School. The model assumes that these graduates act according to the optimal solution of a dynamic optimization problem in which they sequentially choose among five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071876
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Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021
Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings...
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