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Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates : the role of personality traits

Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022

personality traits (Big 5) on educational and skill mismatch in Italian graduates. To this aim, we use the 2018 wave of the INAPP …

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Chapter 9. The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …

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Job polarization, task prices and the distribution of task returns

Cavaglia, Chiara; Etheridge, Ben - 2017

. The estimates show the importance of sorting based on productivity in abstract tasks. …

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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...

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Changing returns to occupational skill and women's wages

Schran, Felix - 2019

This paper investigates to what extent changes in the returns to occupational skill and declining occupational segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by...

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Work organization and high-paying jobs

Nelson, Dylan; Wilmers, Nathan; Zhang, Letian - 2024

High-paying factory jobs in the 1940s were an engine of egalitarian economic growth for a generation. Are there alternate forms of work organization that deliver similar benefits for frontline workers? Work organization varies by type of complexity and degree of employer control. Technical and...

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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages : does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2014

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

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Ability Matching and Occupational Choice

James, Jonathan - 2011

This paper develops and estimates an individual model of occupational choice and learning that allows for correlated learning across occupation-specific abilities. As an individual learns about their occupation-specific ability in one occupation, this experience will be broadly informative about...

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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States

Hlavac, Marek - 2013

I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...

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