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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
Borghans, Lex - 2006
This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778996
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Multidimensional Skill Mismatch
Guvenen, Fatih - 2019
What determines the earnings of a worker relative to his peers in the same occupation? What makes a worker fail in one … occupation but succeed in another? More broadly, what are the factors that determine the productivity of a worker-occupation … match? In this paper, we propose an empirical measure of skill mismatch for a worker-occupation match, which sheds light on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903924
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Credit constraints in education
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2012
We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints have recently become important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487423
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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283117
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Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education
Jones, John Bailey - 2012
We document the growth in higher education costs and tuition over the past 50 years. To explain these trends, we develop a general equilibrium model with skill- and sector-biased technical change. We assume that higher education suffers from Baumol's (1967) service sector disease, in that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098860
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Migration Competition in Enlarged European Union : A Theoretical Model
Giannoccolo, Pierpaolo - 2013
In this article, we propose a theoretical model which help us to define two possible settings where the European “migration competition” could be analysed. First, we analyse the scenario in which there are two regions: a receiving country and a net sending country. In this scenario we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085250
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Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital
Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2020
We exploit credit bureau data linked to administrative data of undergraduate students in the U.S. and implement a research design that instruments for tuition with relatively large changes to the tuition of students who enrolled at the same school in different years. $10,000 in higher tuition...
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Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice
Humlum, Maria Knoth - 2017
Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using detailed register data on the latest cohorts of Danish labour market entrants, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955028
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Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital
Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of college tuition on student debt and human capital accumulation. We exploit data from a random sample of undergraduate students in the United States and implement a research design that instruments for tuition with relatively large changes to the tuition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854758
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A Big Fish in a Small Pond : Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016373