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Degrees of poverty : the relationship between family income background and the returns to education
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad - 2018
prevalence and robustness of these differential returns to education across race and gender, finding that they are driven by …
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Fading shooting stars : the relative age effect, misallocation of talent, and returns to training in German elite youth soccer
Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2022
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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Fading Shooting Stars – The Relative Age Effect, Misallocation of Talent, and Returns to Training in German Elite Youth Soccer
Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2023
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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The gender gap in top jobs : the role of overconfidence
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Shure, Nikki - 2022
There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …
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The gender gap in top jobs - the role of overconfidence
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Shure, Nikki - 2022
There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452416
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The boom in university graduates and the risk of underemployment : better information on university quality may reduce underemployment and overeducation in developing countries
Yamada, Gustavo - 2015
As the number of secondary school graduates rises, many developing countries expand the supply of public and private universities or face pressure to do so. However, several factors point to the need for caution, including weak job markets, low-quality university programs, and job-education...
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The effect of foreign students on native students' outcomes in higher education
Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022
This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four...
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Same degree but different outcomes : an analysis of labour market outcomes for native and international PhD students in Australia
Tani, Massimiliano - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18
benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a wage premium unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and …
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The changing graduate labour market : analysis using a new indicator of graduate jobs
Green, Francis; Henseke, Golo - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-25
This paper examines differentiation in the recent evolving graduate labour market in Britain. Using a novel statistically derived indicator of graduate jobs, based on job skill requirements in three-digit occupations obtained from the British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse...
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Substitution effects in college admissions
Gandil, Mikkel Høst - 2021
I show how local supply changes create ripple effects in a national educational market. Admitting an applicant to a program will free up a slot to be filled at her next-best alternative. To investigate such substitution effects I re-engineer the centralized admission system of the Danish...
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