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Selective immigration policies, occupational licensing, and the quality of migrants’ education-occupation match

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

, mostly improving wages and reducing over-education and occupational downgrade of those working in licensed jobs. However, not …

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Overeducation, Overskilling and Job Satisfaction in Europe: The Moderating Role of Employment Contracts

Giuliano, Romina; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2024

This paper is the first to examine whether and how overeducation and overskilling, considered separately and in interaction, influence workers' job satisfaction at European level. It also investigates the moderating role of employment contracts. Our results, based on a unique pan-European...

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Loud or quiet quitting? The influence of work orientations on effort and turnover

Nikolova, Milena - 2024

This study examines work orientations as a novel determinant influencing job search behaviors, quit intentions, and workplace effort, thereby integrating this concept into the field of labor economics. Work orientations, the intrinsic beliefs regarding the role of work in one's life, relate to...

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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders. An unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018

The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow measuring the average effect of being educationally mismatched at the mean of the conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead,...

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Self-employment and Subjective Well-Being

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021

Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...

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The impact of working conditions on mental health: novel evidence from the UK

Belloni, Michele; Carrino, Ludovico; Meschi, Elena - 2022

This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working Condition Survey with microdata from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). Our...

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Much ado about nothing? The wage penalty of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lavadera, Giuseppe Lubrano; … - 2017

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job-education … cross-sectional micro-data collected in 2009 and rely on different definitions of education-job mismatch such as …

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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths - Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...

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