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The Utilisation of Education and Skills: Incidence and Determinants among Pakistani Graduates
Farooq, Shujaat - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 3, pp. 219-244
This study estimates the incidence of job mismatch and its determinants in Pakistan, based on three categories: (i) qualification mismatch, (i) skill mismatch, and (iii) field-of-study mismatch. It uses both primary and secondary datasets that target graduates employed by the formal sector. The...
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Mismatch Between Education and Occupation: A Case Study of Pakistani Graduates
Farooq, Shujaat - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 531-553
In this study, an attempt has been made to estimate the incidences of job mismatch in Pakistan. The study has divided the job mismatch into three categories; education-job mismatch, qualification mismatch and field of study and job mismatch. Both the primary and secondary datasets have been used...
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Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - University of Western Ontario, CIBC Centre for Human … - 2014
Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...
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Education, Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality
Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joel - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of...
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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions - Working Paper 295
Glassman, Amanda; McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel - 2012
finds variable results for all indicator types with the partial exception of knowledge-based indicators, which increased in …
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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills
Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
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Entry into working life: Spatial mobility and the job match quality of higher-educated graduates
Venhorst V.; Cörvers F. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2015
We estimate the impact of spatial mobility on job match quality by using a data set of recent Dutch university and college graduates We find positive wage returns related to spatial mobility. However, after controlling for the self-selection of migrants with an IV approach, this effect is no...
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HUMAN CAPITAL IN SERVICE INNOVATION STRATEGY
Fox, Gavin L.; Royle, M. Todd - In: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 29-47
The purpose of this research is to examine a driving force behind innovation, human capital, which we contend is useful … in identifying and exploiting opportunities in both goods and services contexts. Traditional predictors of innovation … theory, this research proposes that investment in employees is an innovation predictor that embraces the nuances of both …
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The effect of human capital and networks on knowledge and innovation in SMEs
Farace, Salvatore; Mazzotta, Fernanda - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°16 (2015) 1, pp. 39-71
This paper proposes a framework to analyze knowledge creation in traditional sectors and empirically test innovation … ease of learning and promote absorptive capacity and knowledge, which in turn fosters innovation in SMEs in traditional … external network in terms of knowledge and innovation. JEL Codes: D83, O31, J24, L1, C25 …
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Is information and communication technology (ICT) the right strategy for growth in Mexico?
Caudillo Sanchez, Francisco - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2006
Although empirical evidence available suggests that information and communication technologies (ICT) have positively contributed to important sectors of the Mexican economy, it is still unknown to which extent ICT have truly contributed to productivity among these sectors. The increasing...
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