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Selective migration, occupational choice, and the wage returns to college majors

Ransom, Tyler - 2020

I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational … migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon completing their education, individuals choose a location in which to … estimates of the model, I characterize the migration behavior of different college majors and find that migration flows are …

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Maintaining high employment in Norway

Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2020

Norway has a well-functioning labour market with high employment and a compressed wage distribution, contributing to low inequality. Norway nevertheless faces challenges from a trend decline in employment rates among the young and prime-age men. Furthermore, immigrants and people with...

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Local education spending and migration : evidence from a large redistribution program

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2024

migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that …

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Self-selection into teaching : the role of teacher education institutions

Denzler, Stefan (contributor); Wolter, Stefan C. (contributor) - 2008

Good teachers are critical for a high-quality educational system. This in turns leads to the question of who is interested in going into the teaching profession. Although research has been done on the professional careers of teachers, the issue of self-selection into teacher education has been...

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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application

Basu, Kaushik (contributor); Lee, Travis (contributor) - 2008

It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A "proximate illiterate," i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account...

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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth

Bauer, Michal (contributor); Chytilová, Julie (contributor) - 2008

Endogenous time discounting is introduced in a two-period human-capital-driven growth model: subjective discount rate depends upon the level of human capital. This assumption accords strongly with the micro-level evidence. In the model an individual optimizes consumption over two periods. Low...

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Employment and education policy for young people in the EU: what can new member states learn from old member states?

Pastore, Francesco (contributor) - 2007

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has taken place from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more...

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The economics and psychology of personality traits

Borghans, Lex; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J.; … - 2008

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest...

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Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?

Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor); … - 2008

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the...

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Graduate employment in the UK : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model

Grazier, Suzanne (contributor); O'Leary, Nigel (contributor) - 2008

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...

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