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Parental Over- and Undereducation and Offspring Earnings
, 2022 The ORU model has become one of the most accustomed ways to measure the joint impact of required level of education of the job and the education-occupation matching of the worker on their earnings. The broader implications of overeducation and undereducation for socio-economic stratification are however less straightforward.
Dirk Witteveen
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The meningitis outbreak returns to Niger: Concern, efforts, challenges, and recommendations. [PDF]
Immun Inflamm Dis, 2023 Meningitis, a disease that commonly manifests in African meningitis belt, continues to be a public health problem as it is a fatal disease that leave survivors with long‐term effects. A total of 559 instances of meningitis, including 18 fatalities (overall CFR 3.2%), were reported in the Zinder Region, southeast of Niger, from November 1, 2022 to ...
Sibomana O, Hakayuwa CM.
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The Bahamas at risk: Material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development
Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1165-1183, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Recent research suggests that over 75% of resources extracted globally now go toward creating, maintaining, or operating material stocks (MS) to provide societal services like housing, transport, education, and health. However, the integrity of current and future built environments, and the capacity of the system to continue providing services,
Francisco Martin del Campo +4 more
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Review of Education, Volume 9, Issue 3, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Female education in China is an over‐researched area, yet it does not provide enough evidence on the country's exact pattern of female education practice. On the one hand, the National Plan of 2010–2020 emphasises equal education policies regardless of gender type. On the other hand, reported research raises several gendered and procedural yet
Ahmed Alduais, Meng Deng, Seda Gökmen
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On‐the‐job training: a skill match approach to the determinants of lifelong learning
Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 64-81, January 2021., 2021 Abstract A recurrent finding in on‐the‐job training research is the ‘training gap’ in formal training: the positive correlation between initial education and continuing training. This finding is here examined from the perspective of two important distinctions: (i) between employee skill supply and job skill demand and (ii) between formal and informal ...
Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin
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Do Ethnic Networks Ameliorate Education–Occupation Mismatch?
LABOUR, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 441-476, December 2020., 2020 Abstract The question to what extent ethnic networks affect occupational mismatch has so far been overlooked. This paper exploits supraregional variation in ethnic composition in Germany and shows that a one standard deviation increase in the share of the own ethnic group per zip code significantly reduces the years of overqualification for females, by
Eric Schuss
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Do you really need it? Educational mismatch and earnings in Ghana
Review of Development Economics, Volume 24, Issue 4, Page 1365-1392, November 2020., 2020 Abstract This study examines the effects of educational mismatch on earnings using cross‐sectional data from three rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. There are gender‐earnings differentials, with women suffering a penalty for undereducation that is almost twice that paid by men for having less than the required years of education, although ...
Christian K. Darko, Kennedy K. Abrokwa
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The Effects of Over, Required and Under-Education on Earnings in Manufacturing Sector in Malaysia
International Journal of Management Studies, 2014 This paper presents returns to education by taking into account the quality of jobs match held by workers in the manufacturing sector of Malaysia. This type of study is quite rare not only in the country but also across developing nations.
Zainizam Zakariya
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The Relationships between Education and Occupation in Iran: an Application of Verdugo-Verdugo Model [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2015 In the recent decades, supply of labor force has increased and caused overeducation in Iran. Overeducation is potentially costly for national economy.
Mohsen Ebrahimi +2 more
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Educational mismatch in the Czech Labour Market
Review of Economic Perspectives, 2016 Educational mismatch in labour markets is a phenomenon that has been widely analysed, mainly with respect to rising concerns about a possible oversupply of graduates.
Mysíková Martina
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