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Social Capital, Scale Economies of Skills and the Equilibrium Number of Entrepreneurs
Salas Fumás, Vincente - 2015
This paper draws on occupational choice theory to explain that observed differences in shares of entrepreneurs as self-employed across countries, may respond to differences in social capital as a support of generalized trust. With a (incomplete) panel data from 63 countries, for a period of 25...
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Walking wounded - the causal welfare loss of underemployment through overeducation
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
Using data from the SOEP, we analyze the wellbeing impact of underemployment through overeducation to examine a broader definition of employment loss. Persons leaving a job through exogenous reasons but entering directly into immediate employment may not find a perfect employment match and...
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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
O'Connor, Kelsey J.; Bartolini, Stefano - 2024
positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores, based on a sample from … regressions of student life satisfaction on school-level group discussion and lecturing, including a battery of controls and … impact of group discussion is meaningful - a one-standard-deviation increase leads to an increase in life satisfaction that …
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Returns to Human Capital and Investment in New Technology
Kaufman, Martin; Luzio, Rodolfo; Dunaway, Steven - 2021
This paper presents a simple framework that illustrates the link between skill-based wage differentiation and human capital acquisition given skill-biased technical progress. The analysis points to the economic costs resulting from labor market and income redistribution policies that prevent the...
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Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market
Salas-Velasco, Manuel - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the topic of horizontal education-job mismatch in the labor market for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in a particular field, work in another field at their...
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Fading shooting stars : the relative age effect, misallocation of talent, and returns to training in German elite youth soccer
Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2022
This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training. Our results indicate a strong effect of players' birth dates on their probability of getting selected - and, thus, a waste of...
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Fading Shooting Stars – The Relative Age Effect, Misallocation of Talent, and Returns to Training in German Elite Youth Soccer
Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2023
Key date assessments are common in the contexts of firms’ hiring decisions, the educational system, and professional sports. In talent selection, it is very likely that there is a difference between current and potential performance levels. This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in...
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Creators' income situation in the digital age
Cuntz, Alexander - 2018
The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in...
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Job loss by wage level: Lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland
Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-25
This paper explores the incidence of job loss by wage level during the Great Recession, using data for Ireland. Ireland experienced a particularly pronounced decline in employment by international and historical standards, which makes it a valuable case study. Using EU Survey on Income and...
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This job is getting old: measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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