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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?
Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020
The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the … whether there are distinct trajectories and patterns in online careers. We document dominant career paths and develop a … taxonomy of novel career patterns in OLMs. This addresses recent calls for research to update and refine our theories and …
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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403075
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Capital humano y primera ocupación de los inmigrantes en Andalucía
Ruiz, Antonio Caparrós; Gómez, Mª Lucía Navarro - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2010
La convergencia de los inmigrantes hacia los trabajadores españoles se ha abordado desde diversos puntos de vista en la literatura económica. En este trabajo se desea arrojar evidencia empírica para Andalucía sobre diversos aspectos de interés relacionados con dicho tema. En particular, el...
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325994
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Career Lotto: Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018
, males would be 23% and females 5% less likely to continue pursuing a professional career, on average. Thus, winner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984572
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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Founders' experience and self-employment duration: The importance of being a 'Jack-of-all-trades'. An analysis based on competing risks
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2008
In dem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie sich Berufserfahrung und beruflicher Hintergrund auf die Dauer der Selbstständigkeit von Unternehmensgründern auswirken, insbesondere welchen Einfluss ausgewogene Qualifikationen auf diese Dauer haben. Es wird ein Bezugsrahmen zur Berufswahl eingesetzt, der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267217
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277025
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Beyond traditional academic degrees: The labor market returns to occupational credentials in the United States
Baird, Matthew; Bozick, Robert; Zaber, Melanie A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
Occupational credentials provide an additional-and, at times, alternative-path other than traditional academic degrees for individuals to increase productivity and demonstrate their abilities and qualifications to employers. In the United States, these credentials typically take the form of...
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An Unfulfilled Promise? Higher Education Quality and Professional Underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
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