This paper examines the role of individual agency in shaping educational and occupational transitions as well as the assumption of family-related roles in times of social change.
This paper intends to address individual as well as family and school related influences on uptake of science, engineering, technology and health related careers.
This paper examines antecedents and outcomes of educational and occupational aspirations of young men and women, covering the transition from dependent childhood into independent adulthood.
This paper intends to address individual as well as family and school related influences on uptake of science, engineering, technology and health related careers.
We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate.
Considering immigrant earnings in the context of post-arrival human capital investment implies: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of macro effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults.
There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity.
This paper provides a non-technical review of the evidence on the returns to education and training for the individual, the firm and the economy at large