Search Results - subject_exact:"Occupational choice"

Gschwendt, Christian; Viarengo, Martina; Zöllner, Thea S. - 2026

The economic impact of technological change will critically depend on how future workers invest in their human capital. Yet, little is known about how future workers themselves evaluate and choose their educational and occupational paths in light of emerging technologies. This paper examines how...

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Generative AI and career choices

Gschwendt, Christian; Viarengo, Martina; Zöllner, Thea S. - 2026

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Household taxation, nonlinear occupations, and gender gaps

Denderski, Piotr; Obermeier, Tim - 2026

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Gender and intergenerational mobility : unequal economic outcomes between siblings

Leites, Martín; Vilá, Joan - 2026

This paper examines the role of sibling sex composition as a potential explanation of the transmission of parental advantages to the next generation. The presence of a brother affects the family environment and parents' decisions, influencing the siblings' labour market outcomes in the long...

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Disparate impacts of teacher certification exams

Deneault, Christa; Riehl, Evan; Zou, Jian - 2026

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Taxing entrepreneurs and workers : a linear optimization approach for multidimensional screening

Ceneri, Nicolò; Lopomo, Giuseppe; Villa, Alessandro T.; … - 2026

We study optimal taxation in economies with general equilibrium market clearing, where agents with privately known labor skills and entrepreneurial abilities choose between deterministic labor income and risky firm operation. The government observes labor income and realized dividends but not...

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Bound by tradition : cultural gender norms and occupational choice

Irmert, Natalie - 2026

This paper investigates whether cultural gender norms about occupations, defined as a society's perception of what is appropriate work for men and women, contribute to persistent gender-stereotypical occupational choice. Using large-scale international survey data and high-quality administrative...

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Occupational heterogeneity of child penalty in the United States

Gulek, Ahmet - 2026

I investigate how parenthood reshapes employment patterns across occupations and how this occupational heterogeneity contributes to earning disparities. Using a novel rotating panel approach to estimating child penalties, I document that both men and women change occupations. The...

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The declining local bias of entrepreneurship in the United States

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; … - 2026

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The Declining Local Bias of Entrepreneurship in the United States

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2026

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The role of AI use and AI training in school-to-work transitions

Theiler, Roman; Palffy, Patricia; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2026

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Imperfect self-knowledge about skills and skill mismatch

Goller, Daniel; Brox, Enzo; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

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Imperfect self-knowledge about skills and skill mismatch

Goller, Daniel; Brox, Enzo; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

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Imperfect self-knowledge about skills and skill mismatch

Goller, Daniel; Brox, Enzo; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

We merge experimental data on competitiveness of a large sample of students with their complete educational history for up to ten years after the initial assessment. Exploiting quasi-random class assignments and controlling for other non-cognitive peer characteristics, we find that having...

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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

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Competitive peers: the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

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Who enters the public sector?

Bismarck-Osten, Clara von - 2026

Is the public sector losing the most educated to finance, tech, and consulting? Does it act as a Keynesian employment insurer to the less educated? The data constraints behind the limited evidence on this have recently been overcome for England. The probability of entering the public sector...

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New information,new interests? : impact of an occupation finder on the occupational choices of dual vocational education and training students

Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther - 2025

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Female representation and talent allocation in entrepreneurship : the role of early exposure to entrepreneurs

Mertz, Mikkel; Ronchi, Maddalena; Salvestrini, Viola - 2025

This paper shows that exposure to entrepreneurs during adolescence increases women's entry and performance in entrepreneurship and improves the allocation of talent in the economy. Using population-wide registry data from Denmark, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school, cross-cohort variation in...

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Heterogeneity, uncertainty and learning : semiparametric identification and estimation

Bunting, Jackson; Diegert, Paul; Maurel, Arnaud - 2025

We provide identification results for a broad class of learning models in which continuous outcomes depend on three types of unobservables: known heterogeneity, initially unknown heterogeneity that may be revealed over time, and transitory uncertainty. We consider a common environment where the...

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Home production and gender gap in structural change

Cao, Huoqing; Chen, Chaoran; Xi, Xican - 2025

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How selectivity shapes selection

Schilter, Claudio - 2025

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It's all about maths! : skill requirements and the gender gap in occupational choice

Zöllner, Thea S. - 2025

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Local labor markets and selection into the teaching profession

Deneaul, Christa - 2025

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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2026

We study how adolescents' second-order beliefs about their parents' occupational preferences shape gendered career aspirations. In a consequential early-career choice setting, we combine a parental choice experiment with a randomized salience intervention among students. Parents give gendered...

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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2026

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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2025

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Taxation of top incomes and tax avoidance

Di Nola, Alessandro; Kocharkov, Georgi; Scholl, Almuth; … - 2024

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional effects of raising the top marginal income tax rate in the presence of tax avoidance. To this end, we develop a quantitative macroeconomic model with heterogeneous agents and occupational choice in which entrepreneurs can avoid taxes in two...

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Taxation of top incomes and tax avoidance

Di Nola, Alessandro; Kocharakov, Georgi; Scholl, Almuth; … - 2023

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Layoff costs and learning about employer financial distress

Kostøl, Andreas R.; Merkle, Matthew C.; Grindaker, … - 2024

While many employees risk losing their job and having their career disrupted due to employers' financial distress, it is widely recognized that many leave their employer in anticipation of layoff. In this paper, we assess how employee costs of financial distress depend on employees learning and...

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Do grow-your-own programs work? : evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland

Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, … - 2024

Local teacher recruitment through "grow-your-own" programs is a prominent strategy to address workforce shortages and ensure that incoming teachers resemble, understand, and have strong connections to their communities. We exploit the staggered rollout of the Teacher Academy of Maryland career...

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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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Disappearing stepping stones : technological change and career paths

Kashkarov, Daniil; Artemev, Valentin - 2024

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Are parents an obstacle to gender-atypical occupational choices?

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zöllner, Thea - 2024

Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a persistent concern for policymakers and academics globally. We contribute to the literature on gendered career choices by focusing on explicitly stated parental preferences for their...

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Are parents an obstacle to gender-atypical occupational choices?

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zöllner, Thea - 2024

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Teacher selection in Finland

Izadi, Ramin - 2024

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Teacher Selection in Finland

Izadi, Ramin - 2024

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Environmental awareness and occupational choices of adolescents

Lehnert, Patrick; Pfeifer, Harald - 2024

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Infrastructure and structural transformation : evidence from satellite, administrative, and multi-generation household data in a developing country

Kim, Soyoung; Higuchi, Yuki; Kajisa, Kei; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2024

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A senior doctor like me : gender match and occupational choice

Kelly, Elaine; Stockton, Isabel - 2024

Men and women consistently sort into different occupations and fields within occupations. In this paper, we use data on doctors in the English National Health Service, where women make up more than half of all senior pediatricians but only 1 in 8 senior surgeons and cardiologists. We estimate...

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Tensions of structural change : evidence from Finland's field reservation policy

Stenhammar, Aapo - 2024

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Occupational switching during the second industrial revolution

Hobijn, Bart; Kaplan, Robert S. - 2024

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Occupational switching during the Second Industrial Revolution

Hobijn, Bart; Kaplan, Robert S. - 2024

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Dreaming big : higher occupational aspirations from persistent and advantaged kids

New, Sonja C. de; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Jayawardana, … - 2024

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Selection and the roy model in the Neolithic transition

Jandarova, Nurfatima; Rustichini, Aldo - 2024

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Gender and intergenerational mobility: Unequal economic outcomes between siblings

Leites, Martín; Vilá, Joan - 2026

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Tastes, ability or expected wages? : the intended choice of college majors by students in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Campo, Francesco; Lodigiani, Elisabetta - 2026

We investigate the factors influencing the intended college major choices of high school students in Italy, ranking the relative importance of expected earnings, perceived ability, and major-specific tastes, that we measure directly using a Coller and Williams game. We find that major-specific...

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Tastes, ability or expected wages? : the intended choice of college majors by students in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Campo, Francesco; Lodigiani, Elisabetta - 2026

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Beyond occupational sorting : how skills shape task allocation and immigrant disadvantage

Tverdostup, Marina; Walter, Dora - 2026

Immigrants across Europe earn less and work in lower-quality jobs than natives, but the mechanisms underlying these disparities remain poorly understood. This paper asks whether immigrant disadvantage reflects barriers to accessing good jobs or skill deficits that persist even within similar...

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The effect of longer maternal care on children's occupation choices

Sinani, Sofiana - 2026

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College major choice, payoffs, and gender gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2026

This paper studies how college major choices shape earnings and fertility outcomes. Using administrative data that link students' preferences, random assignment to majors, and post-college outcomes, we estimate the causal pecuniary and nonpecuniary returns to different fields of study. We...

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College Major Choice, Payoffs, and Gender Gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2026

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College major choice, payoffs, and gender gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2025

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Emigration prospects and educational choices : evidence from the Lorraine-Luxembourg corridor

Beine, Michel; Fromentin, Vincent; Sánchez Bachiller, … - 2026 - Original version: June 2024, this version: Februar 2026

An extensive literature has documented the incentive effect of emigration prospects in terms of human capital accumulation at origin. Less attention has been paid to the impact on specific educational choices. Using novel data from graduates from the University of Lorraine (France) we find that...

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Emigration prospects and educational choices : evidence from the Lorraine-Luxembourg corridor

Beine, Michel; Fromentin, Vincent; Bachiller, Javier … - 2024

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Correcting beliefs about job opportunities and wages : a field experiment on education choices

Koning, Bart K. de; Dur, Robert A. J.; Fouarge, Didier - 2026

In a natural field experiment, we provide information to students about job opportunities and hourly wages of occupations they are interested in. The experiment takes place within a widely-used career orientation program in the Netherlands, and involves 28,186 pre-vocational secondary education...

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Correcting beliefs about job opportunities and wages : a field experiment on education choices

Koning, Bart K. de; Dur, Robert A. J.; Fouarge, Didier - 2025

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College majors and skill mismatch in labour markets : a general equilibrium approach

Rendall, Michelle; Tanaka, Satoshi; Zhang, Yi - 2026

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Declining occupations and career outcomes in Norway

Barth, Erling; Hoen, Maria F.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; … - 2026

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Natural disasters and the green occupational aspirations of adolescents$Andreas F. Buehler, Patrick Lehnert and Harald Pfeifer

Buehler, Andreas F.; Lehnert, Patrick; Pfeifer, Harald - 2026

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Choice architecture in occupational choices

Dell, Madison; Brox, Enzo; Palffy, Patricia; Schilter, … - 2026

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Stephen versus Stephanie? : does gender matter for peer-to-peer career advice

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Lordan, Grace - 2026 - This version: December 2025

Occupational segregation is one of the major causes of the gender pay gap. We probe the possibility that individual beliefs regarding gender stereotypes established in childhood contribute to gendered sorting. Using an experiment with two vignette designs, which was carried out in schools in the...

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