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Fall, Falilou - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that inherited human capital is a powerful vector of inequality formation and persistence, irrespective of its links with financial wealth endowment. This paper argues that the agents who inherit a low level of human capital bear a greater utility cost...

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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012

, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants

Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...

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Prior work experience and entrepreneurship : the careers of young entrepreneurs

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023

I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have previously worked in high-wage...

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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes

Simon, Lisa - 2019

This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

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The Effect of Match Quality and Specific Experience on Career Decisions and Wage Growth

Yamaguchi, Shintaro - 2009

This paper constructs and estimates a career decision model where individuals search for both career matching and employer matching to understand wage growth and career mobility using the NLSY79. It departs from previous papers in that career mobility decisions and participation decisions are...

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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary

Varga, Júlia - 2003

strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …

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Unequal Opportunities and Human Capital Formation

Mejía, Daniel; St. Pierre, Marc - 2021

This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...

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Ability Matching and Occupational Choice

James, Jonathan - 2011

growth, with those with the lowest levels of education achieving the largest increases …

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Does Employer Learning Vary by Occupation?

Mansour, Hani - 2010

independently from education and that the results are not driven by workers' occupational mobility …

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