This research is concerned with the skills-match between researchers' Ph.D. training
and their subsequent university employment. Self-rated skills-matching is considered in
light of the anchoring vignettes technique. ...
The projected, increasing gap between expected workforce staffing needs of those with science technology and engineering (STEM) training and the anticipated graduates with STEM degrees demands a re-examination of how to ...
Walsh, Frank(University of Chicago Press, 1999-04)
The pattern of effort and wages is derived in a multisector efficiency wage model. Firms choose effort endogenously. Easily monitored or low-turnover jobs have high effort and may have low wages in equilibrium. Empirical ...
William Butler Yeats was extraordinarily vocal and vigorous in articulating hatred as his poetic passion of preference -- so much so that when he dreamed of his goals as a poet, he "dreamed of enlarging Irish hate". This ...
This paper examines the history that led to two separate sets of kinship and foster care regulations, the difference and similarity between the regulations, and the implications arising out of the changed framework for ...
If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant
difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This paper examines the impact ...
A variety of public campaigns, including the “Just Say No” campaign of the 1980s and
1990s that encouraged teenagers to “Just Say No to Drugs”, are based on the premise that
teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. ...
Heckman, James J.(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)
This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy
problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy
problems. Economists embrace a scientific ...
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether ...