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In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a …
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While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
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While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
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We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …
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is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This paper estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … the labour force. The effect of cohort size on wages is identified through an instrumental variables strategy which, in … groups. The results support the hypothesis that cohort size has a negative effect on male wages, particularly for the highly …
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