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have larger impacts on women, older workers, and workers with lower earnings or with less stable employment histories. …
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Since Georgia unveiled its HOPE Scholarship in 1993, at least 15 other states have implemented or proposed merit-aid programs based on the HOPE model. A common justification for these actions is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital....
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process and the importance of promotions in the relative labor market outcomes of young men and women in their early careers …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … women. The results indicate that women are less likely to be promoted. This gender gap in promotions - the magnitude of …
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Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may … participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying … population. The Swedish adult education program is unprecedented in its size, and enrollment is universally available at …
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duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …
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This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...
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-Under-Required education approach to occupations, a new decomposition technique developed especially for this approach, and data from the 2000 …" (occupational norm) level of education, but experience a smaller negative effect of years of undereducation, and to a lesser extent …
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This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
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We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people’s cognitive abilities to analyze whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and undereducated workers are less vulnerable. We found that a job-worker mismatch induces a cognitive...
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There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians....
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