This article analyzes the relation between unemployment duration and educational mismatches (overeducation and horizontal mismatches). This study proposes a job matching model to identify the theoretical mechanisms. An econometric analysis using the independent competing-risks duration model on...

Internships are an important and often mandatory part of academic education. They offer valuable insights into the labor market but can also expose students to negative aspects of the working world, such as gender pay disparities. Our paper provides first evidence of a gender pay gap in...

Women are underrepresented in both STEM college majors and STEM jobs. Even with a STEM college degree, women are significantly less likely to work in a STEM occupation than their male counterparts. This paper investigates whether men and women possess different ability distributions and examines...

This paper sheds light on the microfoundations of reduced-form returns to education. Specifically, we ask: are more advanced higher education degrees associated with increased earnings within employers or higher average pay across employers? And to the extent that sorting across firms matters,...

This paper analyzes the impact of post-secondary education on wages in Israel. The focus is on the impact of university choice on individual wages controlling for the degree acquired and the area of study. Although the raw data indicate that universities command a different return to education,...

This article tests the existence of credit constraints on higher education access by estimating actual marginal returns in the context of unobserved heterogeneity. We estimate higher education returns for those who attend to it and compare them with those of individuals who are at the margin of...

Resumen: La brecha laboral entre mujeres y hombres es persistente. Las diferencias en remuneraciones y liderazgos exteriorizan órdenes estructurales de corte patriarcal que rigen el desenvolvimiento de cada gremio, siempre en sintonía con su entorno público y privado. El trabajo científico...

This article analyzes the wage impacts of educational mismatches among university graduates in Cambodia by considering the both forms of mismatches (vertical and horizontal forms) and the possibility of their combination (double mismatch). This research uses two-stage least square regression to...

In this paper, we provide a summary of key indicators of the labour market and use statistical techniques to summarise their information and assess their implications for the labour market conditions and policies in Ghana. The analysis shows that there is significant distress in the labour...

In contrast with a large body of existing literature, Nekoei and Weber (2017, NW henceforth) find a positive effect of unemployment insurance on job quality. This comment shows that NW's finding is driven by unnecessarily large bandwidths used in their regression discontinuity analysis. When the...