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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 … have a strong effect on the later risk of overeducation. The quality of the vocational training chosen only impacts on the … overeducation risk when the strong selectivity effects in certain types of schools and types of vocational training are not taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403075
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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 … have a strong effect on the later risk of overeducation. The quality of the vocational training chosen only impacts on the … overeducation risk when the strong selectivity effects in certain types of schools and types of vocational training are not taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262544
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments: The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of … have a strong effect on the later risk of overeducation. The quality of the vocational training chosen only impacts on the … overeducation risk when the strong selectivity effects in certain types of schools and types of vocational training are not taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763770
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Educational Mismatch in the Czech Labour Market
Mysikova, Martina - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
Educational mismatch in labour markets is a phenomenon that has been widely analysed, mainly with respect rising concerns about possible oversupply of graduates. Similarly to most European countries, the Czech Republic has experienced a boom in tertiary education in the last decade. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107041
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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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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283119
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High school human capital portfolio and college outcomes
Tchuente, Guy - 2015
This paper assesses the relationship between courses taken in high school and college major choice. Using High School and Beyond survey data, I study the empirical relationship between college performance and different types of courses taken during high school. I find that students sort into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332991
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Who are poor and do they remain poor?
Ducanes, Geoffrey M.; Tan, Edita A. - 2014
This paper examines the link between poverty and income, on the one hand, and human capital and location, on the other. In the process, the paper proposes a shift in the household indicator of human capital from the usual education of the household head to the education of the most educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362230
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Procrastination, academic success and the effectiveness of a remedial program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257601
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Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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