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Disruptive peers and academic performance : shortand long-term outcomes

Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of...

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Are short-lived jobs stepping stones to long-lasting jobs?

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2008

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...

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The value of formal host-country education for the labour market position of refugees : evidence from Austria

Ludolph, Lars - 2021

using the example of forcefully displaced Bosnians who arrived in Austria during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Deploying 22 … attained in Austria vis-à-vis Bosnia on labour market outcomes for refugees aged around schooling thresholds. These estimates … holders are visible after more than two decades of stay in Austria. The discount on Bosnian education declines over time for …

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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment

Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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Stay in school or start working? : the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Pilichowski, Margarethe - 2009

As the time of leaving school determines the level of academic achievement this timing decision is central for the human capital investment decision. Real option theory offers a new perspective of the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other...

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Entrepreneurship and market size : the case of young college graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - 2010

We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs …

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Student loans and the allocation of graduate jobs

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2015

common knowledge. Graduates and graduate jobs are matched by tournament. In laissez faire, only the rich can buy enough … some of the rich buy too much education, and some of the graduates have lower ability than some of the non-graduates … the same quality are assigned to graduates with the same education but different ability. Competition among employers will …

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Educational and wage risk : social insurance vs. quality of education

Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...

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Are expectations alone enough? : estimating the effect of mandatory college-prep curriculum in Michigan

Jacob, Brian Aaron; Dynarski, Susan M.; Frank, Kenneth; … - 2016

This paper examines the impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC), a statewide college-preparatory curriculum that applies to the high school graduating class of 2008 and later. We use a student, longitudinal database for all public school students in Michigan for the main analyses, and...

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Educating Europe

Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...

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