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No pass no drive : education and allocation of time

Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernández, Marian - 2012

-work at the expense of leisure and work. -- negative incentives ; education ; allocation of time ; dropout ; No Pass No Drive …Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have …

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Redesigning U.S. Intercollegiate Athletics to Better Conform with UNESCO’s Best Practices in Student Affairs

Edelman, Marc - 2019

of student affairs departments within the broader context of higher education, and it begins to explore the view of the …

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Long workweeks and strange hours

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2014

American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...

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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...

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Did the Covid-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data

Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether the Covid-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the Covid-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...

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Did the COVID-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data

Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the COVID-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...

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Raising job quality and worker skills in the US : creating more effective education and workforce development systems in states

Holzer, Harry J. - 2012

education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and … with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes … employers in key industries, education providers, workforce agencies and intermediaries at the state level, plus a range of …