Large variation in the estimated income premium of occupational licensing can be found in the existing literature. I revisit the natural experimental design of a change in the German crafts regulation in 2004, which removed the traditional licensing requirement for self-employment in certain...

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to mothers giving birth or adopting a child, leading to a short-lived increase in births. In this study, I measure the causal impact that the transfer had on the language and...

Large variation in the estimated income premium of occupational licensing can be found in the existing literature. I revisit the natural experimental design of a change in the German crafts regulation in 2004, which removed the traditional licensing requirement for self-employment in certain...

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to mothers giving birth or adopting a child, leading to a short-lived increase in births. In this study, I measure the causal impact that the transfer had on the language and...

Der demographische Wandel und der damit verbundene drastische Rückgang der Schülerzahlen in Sachsen haben dazu geführt, dass – trotz Standortschließungen – viele Berufsschulen momentan Überkapazitäten aufweisen. Verstärkt wird dieses Problem noch durch die zunehmende Abwendung junger...

Using data on a large sample of recent Italian graduates, this paper investigates the extent to which participation in study abroad programs during university studies impacts subsequent employment likelihood. To address the problem of endogeneity related to participation in study abroad...

After controlling for a wide range of determinants of children's participation in work, school, and idleness, we examine whether or not there exists spatial dependence in children's activities in neighboring Indian districts. We find that correlation among neighboring districts' unobservables...

Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the twentieth century. This essay reviews...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar los efectos del desajuste educativo sobre los ingresos individuales en el mercado de trabajo español desde mediados de los años noventa. En primer lugar, se estudia la evolución de los rendimientos educativos mediante la estimación de ecuaciones...

Una parte importante de la salud de una economía se refleja en la evolución de su mercado de trabajo. Conocer las características de sus principales variables es fundamental para realizar un diagnóstico de la inserción laboral. Pese al amplio uso en la investigación de los rendimientos de...