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Help not wanted : the dismal science of youth unemployment's scarring effect
Glatt, Jordan; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2016
The scarring effect is defined as an increase in the probability of future unemployment spells and the reduction of subsequent wages as the result of joblessness early in one's working years. Many youths get into a rut at the beginning of their professional careers when they become unemployed,...
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Crowding out in the labour market : do employers lend a hand?
Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016
We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - 2015
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530519
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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - 2018
Causal effects of a policy change on the hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change when there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817634
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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - 2014
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403911
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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles
Costa Dias, Monica (contributor);  … - 2008
The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non-treated. We derive a simple correction term if there is an instrument that shifts the treatment probability to zero in specific cases. Policies with eligibility restrictions,...
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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller … not support the theory. Using German panel data (GSOEP), we also test the theory of differential overqualification. Unlike … overqualification hypothesis. …
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Dynamics of overqualification : evidence from the early career of graduates
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2017
This study analyses the persistence and true state dependence of overqualification, i.e. a mismatch between workers … overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary graduates over the first ten years of their career cycle. Accounting for … persistence of overqualification. In particular, selection into initial overqualification at the start of the career is of high …
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Wage losses due to overqualification : the role of formal degrees and occupational skills
Kracke, Nancy; Reichelt, Malte; Vicari, Basha - 2017
. We test two explanations, namely, formal overqualification and a mismatch of occupational skills. By using the National … mismatches. By using fixed-effects models, we confirm that overqualification is associated with a wage loss of approximately 5 … explain the wage loss of the formal overqualification of employees with vocational training. For academics, both types of …
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Residential location and youth unemployment : the economic geography of school-to-work transitions
Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999
In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial logit models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...
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