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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001-2010
O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - In: Oxford economic papers 68 (2016) 4, pp. 945-967
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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001 - 2010
O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...
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Matching Efficiency and Heterogeneous Workers in the UK
Lisauskaite, Elena - 2022
The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … characteristics of unemployed, using the standard aggregate matching function. Consistent with the findings for the US (Barnichon and …
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Qualifikationsunterschiede und die Dynamik der Arbeitsnachfrage
Kohns, Stephan - 2002
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A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data
Coles, Melvyn G.; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021
This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …
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Class ridden or meritocratic? : an economic analysis of recent changes in Britain
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2002
In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415585
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Misreported schooling, multiple measures and returns to educational qualifications
Battistin, Erich; Nadai, Michele de; Sianesi, Barbara - 2012
-reported information close to the date of completion of the qualification, and recall information ten years after completion. We are in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530732
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The impact of apprenticeship training on personality traits : an instrumental variable approach
Bolli, Thomas; Hof, Stefanie - 2014 - This Version: January 2014
This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...
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Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications
Battistin, Erich - 2012
-reported information close to the date of completion of the qualification, and recall information ten years after completion. We are in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110511
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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna F. - 2021
In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320124