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market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education … positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside …
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on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …
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skill-intensive, leading to the introduction of technical education in primary schools. I find that more religious locations … slower adoption of the technical curriculum and a push for religious education. Religious education, in turn, was negatively …
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public goods. We examine how health insurance coverage affects the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD … little change in ASD identification, the mandate crowds-out special education supports for students with ASD by shifting …
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We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives … education. Market remuneration of agents depends on both their innate ability type and their educational choices. Our focus is … on income and education and shed light on the reasons for it and mechanisms through which it is done. We show how and why …
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Recent attention to the causal identification of spending impacts provides improved estimates of spending outcomes in a variety of circumstances, but the estimates are substantially different across studies. Half of the variation in estimated funding impact on test scores and over three-quarters...
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Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
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The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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