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Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"

Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015

, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … knowledge economy. Among the priorities are more and better oriented funding of education, giving greater opportunities to … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …

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Naturalisation and investments in children's human capital : evidence from a natural experiment

Haaren-Giebel, Friederike von - 2016 - This version: 18 February 2016

This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that citizenship is associated with lower return migration...

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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014

Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...

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The effectiveness of apprenticeship training : a within track comparison of workplace-based and school-based vocational training in Hungary

Horn, Dániel - 2014

Although apprenticeship training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school-to-work transition of non-college bound students, most studies rely on cross country or cross track comparisons. This study compares apprenticeship training students with non-apprentices within...

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Evidence and persistence of education inequality in an early-tracking system : the German case

Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - 2014

This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable social, ethnic, gender- and age-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on...

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...

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Berufliche Weiterbildung in Zeiten von Corona : kein dramatischer Einbruch, aber deutliche gruppenspezifische Unterschiede

Flake, Regina; Janssen, Simon; Leschnig, Lisa; Malin, Lydia - 2021

Trotz der coronabedingten Kontaktbeschränkungen war die Beteiligung an beruflicher Weiterbildung bis zum Sommer 2020 nicht massiv zurückgegangen. Denn ein Großteil der Maßnahmen konnte dank entsprechender digitaler Angebote dennoch stattfinden. Je nach Beschäftigungsbranche,...

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...

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Inequality in personality over the life cycle

Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020

We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...

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