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College openings and local economic development
Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022
We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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Creative professionals and high-skilled agents' : polarization of employment growth? : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Barcelona, Spain
Wedemeier, Jan - 2011
The creative sector is one of the driving forces of total employment growth. Furthermore, economic studies suggest that the clustering of human capital might result in the polarization of economic development. Since the creative sector's de nition is motivated from the insights of the economics...
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host … studied in Spain. Whatever their home country, they obtain relatively high wage returns to education, including the part not … acquired in the host country. Having legal status in Spain is associated with a substantial wage premium of around 15%. Lastly …
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The impact of horizontal job-education mismatches on the earnings of recent university graduates in Russia
Rudakov, Victor; Figueiredo, Hugo; Teixeira, Pedro; … - 2019
This paper analyses the determinants and consequences of horizontal job-education mismatches, an increasingly relevant topic in debates about education and labour markets. This issue reflects the articulation of educational fields and occupations in the labour market. We evaluate the...
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The impact of local labour market conditions on participation in further education in England
Clark, Damon - 2002
Over the past 30 years, participation in Further Education (FE) in England has been markedly counter-cyclical. What is more, it has yet to increase beyond the peak of 70% reached in 1993, much to the concern of policy-makers. An obvious explanation for these facts is the availability of labour...
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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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International Migration and the Economics of Language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329183
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The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand
Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883687