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October 17, 2023

Who benefits and who loses from affirmative action in elite universities?

Study from Brazil shows that earnings rise for minority students but drop for top enrollees

  • affirmative action
  • education
  • elite universities
  • human capital
  • Cecilia Machado
  • Evan Riehl
  • Germán Reyes
Research

March 16, 2023

Can more education save the planet?

New study finds sizable causal effects of years of schooling on pro-climate outcomes

  • climate change
  • compulsory schooling
  • education
  • human capital
  • voting
  • Harry A. Patrinos
  • Joshua Graff Zivin
  • Kevin Winseck
  • Noam Angrist
Research

September 21, 2020

How a second chance in education influences labor market outcomes

Adult education reforms in Norway reduced gender earnings gap

  • adult education
  • earnings
  • education
  • fertility
  • gender gap
  • human capital
  • labor market prospects
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Patrick Bennett
  • Richard Blundell
Research

July 14, 2020

Shorter compulsory schooling can increase the overall time spent in education

Reform in Egypt had unexpected positive effects for girls from disadvantaged families

  • Developing Countries
  • education
  • girls
  • household
  • human capital
  • schooling
  • Ahmed Elsayed
  • Olivier Marie
IZA NewsResearch

May 27, 2019

How environmental policies affect the labor market

IZA workshop evaluated the costs and benefits of reducing pollution and mitigating global warming

  • climate change
  • climate costs
  • environmental policy
  • human capital
  • pollution
Research

April 24, 2019

How day-to-day violence affects children’s educational attainment

Innovative study based on detailed crime data from São Paulo, Brazil

  • Brazil
  • crime
  • educational attainment
  • human capital
  • school
  • violence
  • Lívia Menezes
  • Martin F. Koppensteiner
Opinion

March 22, 2019

Work, knowledge and non-hierarchical cooperation

Werner Eichhorst outlines his vision of “human(e) capitalism” in the working world of the future

  • cooperation
  • craft
  • future of work
  • human capital
  • management
  • technology
  • Trust
  • work organization
  • Werner Eichhorst
IZA NewsResearch

November 5, 2018

Ten years after the financial crisis

Labor market adjustment in emerging and post-transition economies

  • emerging markets
  • financial crisis
  • Great Recession
  • human capital
  • labor market
  • post-transition economies
Research

August 27, 2018

Brothers foster women’s gender conformity

Study from Denmark shows that parents invest differently in their daughters if they also have sons

  • gender
  • human capital
  • parents
  • STEM
  • Anne Ardila Brenøe
Research

July 10, 2018

How the Chernobyl cloud affected cognitive abilities in Germany

Even low doses of radiation can have significant human capital costs.

  • chernobyl
  • cognitive skills
  • contamination
  • environment
  • Germany
  • health
  • human capital
  • nuclear energy
  • nuclear power
  • radiation
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Florian Wozny
Research

November 8, 2017

Low-skilled immigration causes human capital polarization in Italy

While there is a vast literature considering the labor market effects of immigration, less has been done to investigate how […]

  • globalization
  • human capital
  • human capital polarization
  • immigration
  • immigration policy
  • Italy
  • low-skilled
  • low-skilled workers
  • Elisabetta Lodigiani
  • Giorgio Brunello
  • Lorenzo Rocco
Research

October 9, 2017

How tax policy can promote lifelong learning

In the face of demographic and technological change, people will have to work longer and are more likely to switch […]

  • education
  • human capital
  • income
  • lifelong learning
  • Netherlands
  • tax deductions
  • tax incentives
  • tax policy
  • training
  • Egbert L. W. Jongen
  • Karen van der Wiel
  • Wiljan Van den Berge
Research

July 9, 2015

Student work experience doesn’t help to get a job interview

Students in high school and university are often encouraged to work during the summer or after class to gain practical […]

  • call-back
  • human capital
  • job application
  • signaling
  • students
  • summer job
  • work experience
  • Dieter Verhaest
  • Eddy Omey
  • Olivier Rotsaert
  • Stijn Baert
Research

March 17, 2015

Global Skill Partnership: Regulate skilled migration for global equity

The migration of skilled labor is often seen as unfair, benefiting rich countries (through receiving well-skilled workers to fill labor […]

  • brain drain
  • destination countries
  • health sector
  • highly trained
  • human capital
  • migration
  • policy tool
  • skilled labor
  • technology transfer
  • training support
  • Michael A. Clemens
Research

February 24, 2015

James Heckman on Gary Becker’s unique approach to economics

Gary Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) has changed the economic profession like few before him. With his […]

  • economics
  • Gary Becker
  • human capital
  • methodology
  • research
  • theory
  • Gary Becker
  • James J. Heckman
Research

June 9, 2014

Is becoming criminal a matter of time?

When homo economicus thinks about committing a crime, it’s all about balancing: the benefit of the crime against the disutility […]

  • crime
  • discount rate
  • education
  • human capital
  • Sweden
  • time preferences
  • Bart H.H. Golsteyn
  • David Akerlund
  • Hans Grönqvist
  • Lena Lindahl
Research

January 31, 2014

Early school tracking: no long-term impact on labor market outcomes

School tracking systems, which allot students to certain school types according to their ability, seek to improve efficiency in education […]

  • education
  • human capital
  • labor market outcomes
  • school choice
  • tracking system
  • Christian Dustmann
  • Patrick A. Puhani
  • Uta Schönberg
Research

December 23, 2013

Overcoming the educational mismatch

Nobel laureate Chris Pissarides suggests that in times of recession it’s good for young people to acquire more education. Nonetheless, […]

  • anonymized job application
  • degrees
  • dual principle
  • education
  • employment
  • graduates
  • human capital
  • mismatch
  • non-employment
  • overeducation
  • overskilling
  • skills
  • Floro Ernesto Caroleo
  • Francesco Pastore
Research

October 7, 2013

Longer maternity leave: Good for children of highly educated mothers

Do children do better in school if mothers stay longer at home after birth? A new IZA Discussion Paper by […]

  • Austria
  • eduaction
  • female labor supply
  • human capital
  • parental leave
  • Natalia Danzer
  • Victor Lavy

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