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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? The Role of Ability, Education, and Sector Choice

Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat - 2018

The classical occupational choice model does not explain the simultaneous existence of low and high ability entrepreneurs. In this paper, we study the decision to become an entrepreneur when individuals choose their education level and the economic sector where to operate. We distinguish two...

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Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? : evidence from an online labour platform

Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili - 2019

We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...

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The changing situation of labor market entrants in Germany

Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: Journal for labour market research 50 (2017) 1, pp. 161-174

Jüngere empirische Evidenz für den US-amerikanischen Arbeitsmarkt zeigt, dass gleichzeitig mit dem stetigen Anstieg des … Ergebnisse bestätigen daher einige Ähnlichkeiten zwischen dem deutschen und dem US-amerikanischen Arbeitsmarkt bezüglich … US-amerikanischen Arbeitsmarkt vor allem College-Absolventen von diesen Änderungen betroffen sind, sind in Deutschland …

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Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? : evidence from an online labour platform

Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili - 2019

This paper studies the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. The paper show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker’s earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The...

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Determinants of overlapping mismatch in the Turkish labour market

Ege, Ahmet Alper; Erdil, Erkan - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-9

Using a micro dataset from labour force survey of Turkey and employing a multinomial logistic regression, this paper examines the determinants of mere overeducation, mere field of study mismatch and full-mismatch (who are both overeducated and field of study mismatched simultaneously). The...

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Entrepreneurship vs. freelancing : what's the difference?

Huđek, Ivona; Tominc, Polona; Širec, Karin - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 66 (2020) 3, pp. 56-62

, enablers of entrepreneurship, potential entrepreneurs, etc. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between …

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Does immigration crowd natives into or out of higher education?

Jackson, Osborne - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the college enrollment of U.S. natives. Many studies have focused on the effect of increased demand for schooling by immigrants on the enrollment of natives. However, changes in immigrant labor supply may also affect native enrollment by...

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LinkedIn(to) job opportunities : experimental evidence from job readiness training

Wheeler, Laurel; Garlick, Robert; Johnson, Eric; Shaw, … - 2019

Online professional networking platforms are widely used and offer the prospect of alleviating labor market frictions. We run the first randomized evaluation of training workseekers to join one of these platforms. Training increases employment at the end of the program from 70 to 77% and this...

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The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills

Arellano-Bover, Jaime - 2020

This paper studies the impact of labor market conditions during the education-to-work transition on workers' long-term skill development. Using representative survey data on measures of work-relevant cognitive skills for adults from 19 countries, I document four main findings: i) cohorts of...

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Downskilling : Changes in Employer Skill Requirements Over the Business Cycle

Modestino, Alicia - 2016

Using a novel database of 82.5 million online job postings, we show that employer skill requirements fell as the labor market improved from 2010 to 2014. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the local unemployment rate is associated with a roughly 0.27 percentage point reduction in the...

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