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The effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of graduates in the Czech Republic
Sedláček, Jan; Zelenka, Martin - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 21 (2021) 2, pp. 105-150
This paper deals with the effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of higher education graduates in the context of higher education expansion and different phases of the economic cycle in the Czech Republic in 2006-2018. It aims to contribute to knowledge about the effects of...
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Youth labour market performance in Spain and its determinants : a micro-level perspective
Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Felgueroso, Florentino; … - 2013
labour market dimensions. These include employment and unemployment rates, youth wages, decisions to work and study, youth …
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Technical Change and Labor Market in Mexico : The Shape of Occupation and Qualification for a Better Assessment
Huesca, Luis - 2017
being acquired in the formal educational system, regardless the structure of wages paid for occupations in the economy. Some …
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In search of a better match : qualification mismatches in developing Asia
Chua, Kenn; Chun, Natalie - 2016
interventions that improve worker-job matches with potential gains to wages and aggregate productivity. …
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Addressing labour market challenges in Belgium
McGowan, Muge Adalet; Hijzen, Alexander; Law, David; … - 2020
Job creation has lowered unemployment, but the Belgian labour market still faces many challenges. Employment rates remain low, reflecting barriers to finding a job such as low levels of skills and weak work incentives. In addition, the changing nature of work will require faster adaptation of...
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …
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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023
We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...
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The impact of horizontal job-education mismatches on the earnings of recent university graduates in Russia
Rudakov, Victor; Figueiredo, Hugo; Teixeira, Pedro; … - 2019
This paper analyses the determinants and consequences of horizontal job-education mismatches, an increasingly relevant topic in debates about education and labour markets. This issue reflects the articulation of educational fields and occupations in the labour market. We evaluate the...
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Exchange Rates and Wages
Goldberg, Linda S.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2006
economies. Previous studies using industry aggregate data have found that industry wages are significantly more responsive than … Survey data for 1976 through 1998, we document that the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job … turnover and the strong consequences this has for the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers …
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Cities, tasks and skills
Kok, Suzanne; Weel, Bas ter - 2014
This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while others require proximity. We construct a measure of task...
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