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Labor market returns to college education with vocational qualifications
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2018
In this paper, I assess labor market returns of a substantial skill upgrade: college enrollment of the vocationally trained, non-traditional students who do not have the formal entry requirement. Using propensity-scoreadjusted regressions and the National Educational Panel Study, I find that...
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Labor market returns to college education with vocational qualifications
Rzepka, Sylvi - In: Education economics 26 (2018) 3/4, pp. 411-431
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Labor market returns to college education with vocational qualifications
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2016
In a context of demographic change, European governments seek ways to keep the skill set of the labor force flexible. One option to achieve this goal is widening access to college education to non-traditional students, such as those vocationally trained. Assessing whether this is a promising...
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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
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Minimum wages and vocational training incentives in Germany
Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2017
We examine the impact of sector-specific minimum wages in Germany on the willingness of youths to undergo vocational …
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Fachliche Zusammensetzung von Mehrfachqualifikationen : Einflussfaktoren und Konsequenzen
Hammen, Anke - 2010
In Deutschland absolvieren etwa ein Viertel aller Personen mindestens zwei Berufsbildungsschritte. Im Zuge der Analyse steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, welche Faktoren die Wahl einer Mehrfachqualifikation bedingen. Dabei wird vor allem auf den Einfluss vorangegangener Bildungsentscheidungen...
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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assessing the role of worker and job characteristics
Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119
This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … characteristics. We also examine wage penalties for mismatching in Germany, considering a large number of controls for workers and, in … results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …
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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude
Hille, Adrian - 2015
music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …
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Barriers to skill acquisition : evidence from English training in India
Jain, Tarun; Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2016
Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education - high unemployment trap in developing countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively investing in skill development programs. However, participation and completion rates in many of these...
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