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Staying-on at school at 16: the impact of labor market conditions in Spain
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In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of family characteristics and local labor market conditions on the demand for post-compulsory education and find that parents' education is the main determinant of school enrollment, producing a sort of intergenerational persistence in the Spanish stock of human capital.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2002-08-01. It has received 126 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Youth unemployment & Unemployment.read more
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Educational choices and the selection process: before and after compulsory schooling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the selection process at work before and after compulsory schooling by assessing the determinants of school failures, dropouts, and upper secondary school decisions of young Italians.
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Increasing or Widening Participation in Higher Education? — a European overview
TL;DR: In the latter decades of the 20t century we have seen a major expansion of the higher education (HE) system in Europe as mentioned in this paper, where a small elite sector where some 5% of school-leavers participate - mostly immediately after leaving the compulsory sector -, there now exists a greatly expanded mass and in some cases universal system.
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Adaptability, productivity, and educational incentives in a matching model
TL;DR: In this paper, the connections between the labour market and the education sector in a matching framework with ex-post wage bargaining were studied, and it was shown that both over-and under-education may take place in equilibrium.
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Job Opportunities, Economic Resources, and the Postsecondary Destinations of American Youth
TL;DR: Using a nationally representative sample of graduates from the high school class of 2003-2004, the warehouse hypothesis is tested, which contends that youth are more likely to leave school and enter the labor force when there are available job opportunities (and vice versa).
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Labor markets, academic performance and the risk of school dropout: evidence for Spain [WP]
TL;DR: This article analyzed the impact of a household's labor market situation and the effect of local labor unemployment on the risk of early school dropout and academic performance, which typically declines before the decision to dropout is taken.
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Schooling, Experience, and Earnings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the distribution of worker earnings across workers and over the working age as consequences of differential investments in human capital and developed the human capital earnings function, an econometric tool for assessing rates of return and other investment parameters.
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Changes in Relative Wages, 1963–1987: Supply and Demand Factors
Lawrence F. Katz,Kevin M. Murphy +1 more
TL;DR: A simple supply and demand framework is used to analyze changes in the U.S. wage structure from 1963 to 1987 as discussed by the authors, showing that rapid secular growth in the demand for more-educated workers, "more-skilled" workers, and females appears to be the driving force behind observed changes in wage structure.
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An International Comparison
Gjalt de Jong,Bart Nooteboom +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an international comparison of long-term supply relationships between the United States, Japan and Europe was conducted, and the empirical evidence indicated that there are strong similarities between the three regions, but these differences seem small, particularly relative to the expectations one may have on the basis of received view on systemic differences between “Japanese and “Western” contracting.
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College Entry by Blacks since 1970: The Role of College Costs, Family Background, and the Returns to Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data from a time series of cross sections of 18-19-year-old youths from 1973 through 1988 to test the role of family background, direct college costs, local economic conditions, and returns to college in driving these trends.