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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules

Bryan, Mark L. - 2014

Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily...

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The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

Heckman, James J. - 2015

This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...

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Educational Inequality

Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - 2022

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...

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Dynamic Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Skills and Uninsured Idiosyncratic Risk

Faia, Ester; Kudlyak, Marianna; Shabalina, Ekaterina - 2022

Occupational specificity of human capital motivates an important role of occupational reallocation for the economy's response to shocks and for the dynamics of inequality. We introduce occupational mobility, through a random choice model with dynamic value function optimization, into a...

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How Useful is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?

McGuinness, Séamus - 2017

The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...

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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity : Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

Mahy, Benoit - 2015

The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative)...

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School Inputs and Skills : Complementarity and Self-Productivity

Nicoletti, Cheti - 2014

Using administrative data on schools in England, we estimate an education production model of cognitive skills at the end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of self-productivity of skills and of complementarity between secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary...

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Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes

Agnese, Pablo - 2016

We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential changes in the labor market. The analysis is performed in the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria. Our exercise suggests that the endogenous...

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Job Mismatches and Career Mobility

Wen, Le - 2018

Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over …. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly using a rich Australian longitudinal data set. A dynamic random effects …, both of which are important to over-education analysis. Contrary to career theory, the results point to job mismatch as an …

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Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin

Bertoli, Simone - 2010

Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more selective immigration policies reduce social...

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