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Do Digital Skill Certificates Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labour Platform
Kässi, Otto - 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 Effect of Labor Market Shocks Across the Life Cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2022
Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual’s career, and economic shocks may...
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Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted? On educational risk and the quality of education
Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2011
it should instead rely on transfers for redistributing income ex post. To this end, we develop a model of education in … a skilled worker depends on individual effort in education and on public resources, but educational risk still causes … of education by public funding of the educational sector has a significant effect and that this increases efficiency in …
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2007
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
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The consequences of being different: Statistical discrimination and the school-to-work transition
Mueller, Barbara; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141011
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...
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Heat and Learning
Goodman, Joshua - 2019
We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning mitigates this effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million PSAT-retakers show hotter school days in years before the test reduce scores, with extreme heat being particularly damaging. Weekend and summer heat...
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Technology Adoption in Education: Usage, Spillovers and Student Achievement
Bergman, Peter Leopold S. - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …
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