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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005
Boudarbat, Brahim - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....
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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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Skill mismatch and overeducation in transition economies : substantial skill shortages coexist with overeducation, affecting both young and old workers
Kupets, Olga - 2015
Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic restructuring, misalignment of the education system with labor market needs, and underdeveloped adult education and training systems. The costs of mismatches can be large and...
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227796
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
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Catching up is hard to do : undergraduate prestige, elite graduate programs, and the earnings premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
Fähigkeitssignalen wie kognitiven und sozialen Fähigkeiten, auf die Einstellungswahrscheinlichkeit bei Bewerbern auf dem Arbeitsmarkt … Arbeitsmarkt erhöht, jedoch nicht allgemeine Einstellungen beeinflusst. Dies lässt sich dadurch erklären, dass wirtschaftliche … Meisterbriefes als notwendige Qualifikation für die Selbstständigkeit in etwa der Hälfte aller Handwerksberufe. Anhand individualer …
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A question of degree : the effects of degree class on labor market outcomes
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - In: Economics of education review 61 (2017), pp. 140-161
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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023
We study how signaling skills that are specific to college majors affect labor market outcomes of college graduates. We rely on census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the impacts of a well-known award given to top performers on a mandatory nationwide exam in Colombia....
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