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The Effect of Match Quality and Specific Experience on Career Decisions and Wage Growth

Yamaguchi, Shintaro - 2009

This paper constructs and estimates a career decision model where individuals search for both career matching and employer matching to understand wage growth and career mobility using the NLSY79. It departs from previous papers in that career mobility decisions and participation decisions are...

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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?

Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...

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Wage losses due to overqualification : the role of formal degrees and occupational skills

Kracke, Nancy; Reichelt, Malte; Vicari, Basha - 2017

. We test two explanations, namely, formal overqualification and a mismatch of occupational skills. By using the National … mismatch of skills between the current and training occupation. Further analyses show that mismatches of occupational skills … mismatch are unrelated. We conclude that because of occupational boundaries and more specific occupational skills, the people …

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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and …

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Patterns of overeducation in Europe : the role of field of study

Rossen, Anja; Boll, Christina; Wolf, André - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-48

particular interest lies in the role of fields of study for vertical educational mismatch. The study reveals country differences …

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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2017

Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through...

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The intergenerational transmission of teaching

Jacinto, Alberto; Gershenson, Seth - 2019

Parental influences, particularly parents' occupations, may influence individuals' entry into the teaching profession. Importantly, this mechanism may explain the relatively static demographic composition of the teaching force over time. We assess the role of parental influences on occupational...

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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation

Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....

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Occuptational choice across generations

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Occupational choice across generations

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003

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