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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...

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Chapter 24 Human Capital and Artists' Labour Markets

Towse, Ruth - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 865-894). 2006

It is argued that human capital theory applies only weakly to artists' decisions about investment in schooling and training and about occupational choice. However, the same can be said about the sorting model. What is lacking in cultural economics is an understanding of talent and creativity,...

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Reaping the rewards later : how education improves old-age cognition in South Africa

Nikolov, Plamen; Yeh, Steve - 2022

Cognitive performance in late adulthood is critical for better welfare and understanding the causes of human capital depreciation in old age is increasingly crucial in aging societies. Using data from South Africa, we study how early life education affects cognition, a component of human capital...

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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...

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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...

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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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