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Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates : the role of personality traits
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022
personality traits (Big 5) on educational and skill mismatch in Italian graduates. To this aim, we use the 2018 wave of the INAPP …
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Chapter 9. The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011
test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …
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Peculiarity of hybrid entrepreneurs - revisiting Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship
Kurczewska, Agnieszka; Mackiewicz, Michał; Doryń, Wirginia - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 1, pp. 277-300
The aim of this study is to explore and elaborate the concept of hybrid entrepreneurship, i.e., a simultaneous mix of self-employment (entrepreneurship) and salary employment. Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship is assessed in terms whether it can explain the phenomenon of being a hybrid...
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...
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Job polarization, task prices and the distribution of task returns
Cavaglia, Chiara; Etheridge, Ben - 2017
. The estimates show the importance of sorting based on productivity in abstract tasks. …
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Changing returns to occupational skill and women's wages
Schran, Felix - 2019
This paper investigates to what extent changes in the returns to occupational skill and declining occupational segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by...
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Work organization and high-paying jobs
Nelson, Dylan; Wilmers, Nathan; Zhang, Letian - 2024
High-paying factory jobs in the 1940s were an engine of egalitarian economic growth for a generation. Are there alternate forms of work organization that deliver similar benefits for frontline workers? Work organization varies by type of complexity and degree of employer control. Technical and...
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Jobseekers' beliefs about comparative advantage and (mis)directed search
Kiss, Andrea; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Hensel, Lukas - 2023
Worker sorting into tasks and occupations has long been recognized as an important feature of labor markets. But this … sorting may be inefficient if jobseekers have inaccurate beliefs about their skills and therefore apply to jobs that do not … with inefficient sorting due to limited information. …
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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality
Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014
SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners’...
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"Soft" skills, "hard" skills, and the black/white earnings gap
Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor); Wei, Xiangdong (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively "soft"/"hard" skills are used in an occupation, the greater/smaller the black/white pay...
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