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Overqualification of graduates: Assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014

Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

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Determinants of work-related training: An investigation of observed and unobserved firm-, job- and worker-heterogeneity

Steffes, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2019

One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...

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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice: Evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations

Bach, Maximilian - 2021

This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...

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Overqualification of graduates: Assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...

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Gritty peers

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Cao, Yaming; Kaya, Ezgi - 2025

We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to explore how high school peers' grit, a personality trait characterized by perseverance and passion, influences long-term outcomes approximately 15 years after high school. Exploiting random variation within schools across...

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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among young Workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and … persistent gender wage gap over experience, the gap has decreased over time. Second, in the lower part of the wage distribution … distribution. We conclude that occupational mobility has reduced the gender wage gap, but lock{in effects are still stronger for …

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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among young Workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

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Skills, job application strategies, and the gender wage gap: Evidence from online freelancing

Teutloff, Ole; Stenzhorn, Eliza; Kässi, Otto - 2025

This paper examines how worker skills and job application behavior contribute to the gender wage gap on a major online … freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with women over-represented in lower-paying project … categories and tending to earn less than men even within the same categories. The unexplained gender wage gap conditional on …

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