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characteristics, gender, and education. However, evidence on the individual's socio-emotional skills creating favorable conditions for …
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This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a … effects of non-cognitive skills for high-wage employees compared to their low-wage counterparts. I test these hypotheses with … unconditional quantile regressions using large-scale survey data from Germany, the UK, and Australia. To test the joint explanatory …
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This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training. Our results indicate a strong effect of players' birth dates on their probability of getting selected - and, thus, a waste of...
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Key date assessments are common in the contexts of firms’ hiring decisions, the educational system, and professional sports. In talent selection, it is very likely that there is a difference between current and potential performance levels. This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in...
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survey", a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999. We use a … one-step full-information maximum likelihood and a two stage least squares estimation to regress the impact of training …
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Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
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market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the … capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level …, and explores the current state of skills imbalances in the country. It identifies accessibility of schooling, provision of …
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We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than … existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state …-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of …
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We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than … existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state …-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of …
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