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Human capital diversity and entrepreneurship : results from the regional individual skill dispersion nexus on self-employment activity

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2013 - This version: 20.12.2013

Human capital has been shown to be highly important in the venture creation process. In this study, we account for the fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use German survey data, which allow us to focus on a specific...

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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013

The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...

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The value of skill training programs for self-employment, entrepreneurship and non-cognitive traits. Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Chakravarty, Shubha; Lundberg, Mattias K. A.; Nikolov, … - 2017 - Current Draft: September 12, 2017

Using a "fuzzy" regression discontinuity design, we examine the short-run impacts of a vocational training program on self-employment, new business plans, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial traits using data from the Nepal Employment Fund training program, which funds training...

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Human capital returns to education : three essays on the causal effects of schooling on skills and health

Dahmann, Sarah Christina - 2016

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Zero returns to compulsory schooling in Germany : evidence and interpretation

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen (contributor); … - 2005

the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany …, but find no evidence for these explanations. We conjecture that the result might be due to the fact that the basic skills …

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany : Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - 2021

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Chapter 9. The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011

, recipients still face limited opportunity due to deficits in noncognitive skills such as persistence, motivation, and reliability …

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Compulsory Schooling and the Returns to Education : A Re-examination

van Huellen, Sophie - 2018

This paper re-examines the instrumental variable approach to estimating the effect of compulsory school law on education in the US pioneered by Angrist and Krueger (1991). We show that the approach not only yields empirically inconsistent estimates but is conceptually confused. The confusion...

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Compulsory schooling and returns to education : a re-examination

Van Huellen, Sophie; Qin, Duo - In: Econometrics : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/36, pp. 1-20

This paper re-examines the instrumental variable (IV) approach to estimating returns to education by use of compulsory school law (CSL) in the US. We show that the IV-approach amounts to a change in model specification by changing the causal status of the variable of interest. From this...

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Locus of control and investment in training

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016

This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...

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