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I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
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I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536219
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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, education and personality skills do not always raise the family earnings of women in this cohort, as women with very high …
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Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and … creative individuals have a package of practical skills that allows them to thrive in work environments where learning from …
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The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to...
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-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state examinations and the high-school GPA on later effectiveness. I apply … skill domains is linked with significantly higher teacher effectiveness. Better teacher skills are associated with a more …
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results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … skills of the job holder and the skill requirements of the job. We explore whether and the extent to which results on …
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Despite evidence that immigrants experience a higher incidence of over-education, relatively few studies have considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using longitudinal data and penalized quantile panel regression, we inspect the earnings effects of job mismatches...
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