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Career Lotto : Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Grove, Wayne A. - 2019

Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...

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Why Do Women's Wages Increase So Slowly Throughout Their Career? A Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination

Sofer, Catherine - 2010

The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and women during their working careers. We provide a dynamic model of statistical discrimination, which integrates specific human capital decisions: on-the-job training investment and wages are endogenously...

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Competition and Career Advancement

Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers’ career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such...

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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012

We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …. -- higher education ; enrollment ; externalities ; two-sector model …

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Optimal Higher Education Enrollment and Productivity Externalities in a Two-Sector Model

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana C. - 2021

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Externalities and Optimal Subsidization of Higher Education

Winter, Stefan - 2013

positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This … paper shortly reviews theoretical arguments, as well as empirical evidence on externalities. It is found that evidence on … positive externalities is quite limited. What is more, evidence on negative externalities of higher education has been mainly …

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Human Capital and Career Success : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders - 2011

Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...

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The career prospects of overeducated Americans

Clark, Brian; Joubert, Clément; Maurel, Arnaud - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-29

In this paper we analyze career dynamics for US workers who have more schooling than their peers in the same occupation. We use data from the NLSY79 combined with the CPS to analyze transitions into and out of overeducated employment, together with the corresponding effects on wages....

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Transmission of vocational skills in the second part of careers : the effect of ICT and management changes

Greenan, Nathalie; Messe, Pierre-Jean - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 6, pp. 1-16

environments and those employed in non-changing ones, we apply propensity score matching techniques. We find that ICT and …, we use propensity score matching methods and a proxy for unobservable productivity. We show that participation in a …

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Baby Bumps in the Road : The Impact of Parenthood on Job Performance, Human Capital, and Career Advancement

Healy, Olivia; Heissel, Jennifer - 2022

A robust literature establishes that women experience lasting penalties to their labor market earnings after having a child, but men do not. This paper explores possible factors behind earnings penalties. We evaluate the effect of parenthood on men’s and women’s job performance, human...

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