For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...

This paper is an update of a previous study by Treasury (Tumen et al, 2015). It assesses the impacts of post-school education on the labour market outcomes of young people who leave school without the NCEA level 2 qualification. Specifically, it estimates the effects of low-level tertiary study...

When labor market economists started to work on segmented labor markets, they classified informal employment as a transitory state. At the end of the 20th century, informal employment still persists governments' attempts to eradicate it and represents a growing labor market segment not only in...

This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using labor force survey data. We find persistent earnings and wage reductions especially for less advantaged...

This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...

This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...

Die duale Berufsausbildung gilt als Garant für einen reibungslosen Einstieg ins Erwerbsleben. Aber nicht bei allen Absolventen einer dualen Berufsausbildung gelingt dieser Einstieg erfolgreich. Bereits zu Beginn des Berufslebens sind Unterschiede zu erkennen, die den weiteren Erwerbsverlauf...

Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We investigate the role of time and reference-dependent preferences in such decisions. Using a data set that...

Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We investigate the role of time and reference-dependent preferences in such decisions. Using a data set that...

We examine how immigrants enter the labor market and whether their integration process varies by host country's immigration history. We focus on two countries - Finland and Sweden - that have similar formal institutions, but differ vastly in their past immigration experience. Nevertheless, in...

Die Arbeitsmarktchancen für Personen ohne abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung haben sich in den letzten zehn Jahren zwar verbessert. Der Erfolg beruhte aber vor allem darauf, dass es weniger Geringqualifizierte gibt. Er kam nicht dadurch zustande, dass im Segment einfacher Tätigkeiten vermehrt...

Ein großer Teil der in den Jahren 2015 und 2016 nach Deutschland gekommen Flüchtlinge ist inzwischen am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt angekommen. Jetzt stellt sich die Herausforderung, diese Personen zu integrieren. Dabei spielt die Qualifizierung eine zentrale Rolle.

We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly wage rates. We also examine the extent to which the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of...

Die Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten, speziell von Flüchtlingen, stellt eine der großen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen in Deutschland dar. Parallel dazu fällt es dem deutschen Handwerk immer schwerer, seinen Fachkräftebedarf zu decken. Eine wachsende Zahl an Projekten von...

This paper investigates the effects of the labor market experience of high school dropouts four years after leaving school by sending fictitious résumés to real job postings in France. Compared to those who have stayed unemployed since leaving school, the callback rate is not raised for those...

We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...

Alleine im Februar 2016 haben 33.493 Flüchtlinge aus der Arabischen Republik Syrien einen Erstantrag auf ein Asylverfahren in Deutschland gestellt. Experten sind sich sicher, dass die starken Migrationsströme kein temporäres Phänomen sind, sondern - wenn auch in abgeschwächter Form - zum...

Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...

We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...

This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to general high school (GHS) education in Turkey using census data. To address non-random selection into high school types, we collect construction dates of the VHSs at the...

Understanding employer preferences for characteristics of young workers is crucial to designing effective policies to reduce youth unemployment in developing countries. We conduct a randomized resume audit study, simultaneously examining the returns to education, experience, and physical...