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We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
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Despite the fact that today’s young cohorts are smaller in number and better educated than their older counterparts, high youth unemployment remains a serious problem in many OECD countries. This reflects a variety of factors, including the relatively high proportion of young people leaving...
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Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education and migration experiences and then more generally discuss sense of belonging as a friction to...
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, accounting for two-thirds of the achievement variation across Italian regions and one-third across U.S. states. Results also hold …
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of new opportunity and new necessity entrepreneurship for the 17 Spanish regions. To test whether exogenous shocks have … deterministic breaks. We also present results for the different Spanish regions and industrial sectors. We find that hysteresis is …
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national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels …. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or …
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Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the … for 10.000 persons from a recent representative survey of the population in ten German planning regions, the Regional … entrepreneurial experience, who live in more densely populated and faster growing regions with higher rates of new firm formation …
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classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the … Labour Force Survey. We find substantial variations in the financial rewards available to graduates across regions with much …
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-type human capital wage equation, including controls for a large number of regions, and calculate a weighted and adjusted … regions account for a significant fraction of observed wage differentials. …
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