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Sexual orientation discrimination in the United Kingdom's labour market : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
Deviations from heteronormativity affect labour market dynamics. Hierarchies of sexual orientation can result in job dismissals, wage discrimination, and the failure to promote gay and lesbian individuals to top ranks. In this paper, I report on a field experiment (144 job-seekers and their...
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Do the long-term unemployed benefit from automated occupational advice during online job search?
Belot, Michèle; Kircher, Philipp; Muller, Paul - 2022
In a randomized field experiment, we provide personalized suggestions about suitable alternative occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers in the UK. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform, and fed into actual search queries. Effects on the...
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Funding mechanisms for financing vocational training : an analytical framework
Ziderman, Adrian - 2016
The paper provides an account of innovative financing mechanisms which have been adopted in many national training … systems. These mechanisms aim at correcting shortcomings of conventional training finance systems in order to better meet … labor market needs, improve both the quality and relevance of training provision and to contain training costs. Directions …
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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs
Cigno, Alessandro - 2015
Higher education is not just a signal of innate ability. At least a certain level of educational achievement (degree level, degree mark) is strictly required to perform a graduate job. School leavers fall into two categories, the rich and the poor. Ability is distributed in the same way in both...
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Reflections on the US College Loans System : Lessons from Australia and England
Barr, Nicholas - 2018
There is wide agreement the US student loan system faces significant problems. Seven million borrowers are in default and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many students results at least in part from the design of US student loans. Specifically, loans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916728
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Reflections on the US College Loans System : Lessons from Australia and England
Barr, Nicholas - 2018
There is wide agreement the US student loan system faces significant problems. Seven million borrowers are in default and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many students results at least in part from the design of US student loans. Specifically, loans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923205
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Reflections on the US college loans system : lessons from Australia and England
Barr, Nicholas A.; Chapman, Bruce James; Dearden, Lorraine - 2018
There is wide agreement the US student loan system faces significant problems. Seven million borrowers are in default and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many students results at least in part from the design of US student loans. Specifically, loans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820067
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Education and Social Mobility : How Well Do CEO Elites do?
Atkinson, Paul E.; Blundell-Wignall, Adrian - 2022
Income distribution and the degree of intergenerational mobility is strongly connected to education. Elites emerge and may block students with more innate ability. CEOs sit in the very top echelon of income distribution and benefit from parental and other advantages. They are therefore an...
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Student Loans and Early Post-Graduation Earnings : Evidence from Decomposition Analysis
Braguinsky, Serguey - 2012
Student loans increase educational opportunities for students from all backgrounds. They have also been criticized as imposing financial and psychological hardships. We employ the data from restricted-use National Surveys of Recent College Graduates to conduct an in-depth investigation of the...
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Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development
Atkin, David; Schoar, Antoinette; Shinde, Sumit - 2023
A growing literature explores the impact of home-based versus office-based work. Differences in productivity may arise due to a treatment effect of the office or from workers with different abilities sorting into office or home work. We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that...
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