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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - CESifo - 2011

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to implement them. Both of these knowledge-based...

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Enterprise Formation and Labor Market Institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - CESifo - 2000

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining …

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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2007

The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...

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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2008

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector,using a model of a...

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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Skans, Oskar Nordström - CESifo - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

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Agency in Family Policy: A Survey

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2009

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents...

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Identity and Entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - CESifo - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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How Risky is College Investment?

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - CESifo - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of U.S. college students drop out without earning a bachelor’s degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...

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