AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF IDENTITY AND CAREER CHOICE<sup>*</sup>

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Nielsen, Helena Skyt

doi:10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00234.x

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“…4 Values, self-respect and social status depend not only on whether somebody is a transfer recipient or a worker, but also on that person's occupation. This is consistent with the observation that occupational pride and prestige are important ingredients in the choice of careers and occupations (Arcidiacono, 2004;Dolton et al;1989, Humlum et al, 2012.…”

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Work norms, social insurance and the allocation of talent

Corneo

2013

Journal of Public Economics

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This paper challanges the view that weak work norms in generous welfare states makes them economically unsustainable. I develop a dynamic model of family-transmitted values that has a laissez-faire equilibrium with strong work norms coexisting with a social-insurance equilibrium with weak work norms. While the former has better incentives, the latter induces more intergenerational occupational mobility which improves the allocation of talent and fuels growth. Strong work norms arise as a defensive strategy of parents that aims at perpetuating their occupation along family lines. I present evidence from microdata showing that generous social insurance correlates with high intergenerational occupational mobility and that more mobile individuals endorse weaker work norms.

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Work norms, social insurance and the allocation of talent

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2013

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“…Blau and Kahn (2005) provide the most comprehensive study where the U.S. is compared to nine other countries, and earnings are decomposed following the general approach of Juhn, Murphy, and Pierce (1993). They reach two general 51 See, for example, studies in Canada (Knighton and Bussière (2006); Bushnik, Barr-Telford, and Bussière (2004)), Denmark (Jensen and Andersen (2006) ;Humlum, Kleinjans, and Nielsen (2010)), and Switzerland (Bertschy, Cattaneo, and Wolter (2009)). Follow-up data collection is also being developed in Australia and in the Czech Republic, although analyses using these data are currently unavailable.…”

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

2010

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit institutional variation that does not exist within countries; draw on much larger variation than usually available within any country; reveal whether any result is country-specific or more general; test whether effects are systematically heterogeneous in different settings; circumvent selection issues that plague within-country identification by using system-level aggregated measures; and uncover general-equilibrium effects that often elude studies in a single country. The advantages come at the price of concerns about the limited number of country observations, the cross-sectional character of most available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors like culture. This chapter reviews the economic literature on international differences in educational achievement, restricting itself to comparative analyses that are not possible within single countries and placing particular emphasis on studies trying to address key issues of empirical identification. While quantitative input measures show little impact, several measures of institutional structures and of the quality of the teaching force can account for significant portions of the large international differences in the level and equity of student achievement. Variations in skills measured by the international tests are in turn strongly related to individual labor-market outcomes and, perhaps more importantly, to cross-country variations in economic growth. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: I20, O40, O15, H40, H52, J24, J31, P50

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“…Para categorizar los distintos tipos de carrera, se tomó como marco la adaptación chilena a la Clasificación Internacional Normalizada de la Educación (CINE) (UNESCO, 2011) y la agrupación poŕ area de conocimiento utilizada por Humlum et al (2007). Teniendo como criterio mantener grupos relativamente homogéneos, en términos de tasas de deserción,áreas de conocimiento y masa, se agruparon de la siguiente manera: a) Salud: Salud; b) Educación y Humanidades: Educación, Humanidades; c) Ciencias: Tecnología, Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Agropecuaria; y d) Ciencias Sociales: Ciencias Sociales, Derecho, Administración y Comercio, Arte y Arquitectura.…”

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Estudio de los factores determinantes de la deserción en el sistema universitario chileno

Magalhaes-Calvet

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Estudio de los factores determinantes de la deserción en el sistema universitario chileno Tomás Larroucau Universidad de Chile ResumenEste estudio tiene como objetivo identificar y cuantificar los factores determinantes de la probabilidad de deserción del sistema universitario chileno. La metodología utilizada considera un modelo econométrico estático de tres ecuaciones que pretende corregir, simultáneamente, la posible endogeneidad presente en la selección de muestra y en la obtención de las ayudas estudiantiles, diferenciando la deserción temporal de la definitiva y analizando posibles efectos heterogéneos entreáreas de carrera y tipos de universidad. Los resultados muestran que la deserción universitaria es un fenómeno multicausal, influida por factores de habilidad individual del estudiante, socioeconómicos y demográficos, pero también factores relacionados con la calidad del establecimiento de enseñanza media, de la carrera y de la universidad a la que accede. Las características previas al ingreso del estudiante a la universidad son más relevantes que la habilidad medida por medio de la PSU. Además, se constata que la deserción universitaria es también un problema de financiamiento; estudiantes de mayores ingresos y aquellos que perciben una ayuda estudiantil presentan una probabilidad estadísticamente significativa menor de desertar del sistema. Por otro lado, se encuentra que la calidad de la universidad y el tipo de carrera a la cual se accede son factores también importantes ya que existen indicios de heterogeneidad al interior del sistema.Palabras clave: Modelos econométricos, deserción universitaria, sistema educacional. Study of the determinants of desertion in the chilean university system AbstractThis study identify and quantify the determinants of dropping out probability of the chilean univertsity system. The methodology considers a static econometric model of three equations to correct the possible endogeneity present in the sample selection and in the obtaining of student aid, differentiating the temporary and final desertion, and analyzing possible heterogeneous effects among career areas and university types. The results show that the college desertion is a multi-causal phenomenon, influenced by factors of individual student's ability, socioeconomic and demographic, but also factors related to the quality of the establishment of secondary education, career and university. The student's characteristics previous the university admission to the university are more important than the ability measured by the PSU. The university desertion is a funding problem; higher-income students and those who receive a student aid presented a statistically significant lower probability of deserting of the system. On the other hand, the quality of the university and the type of career are also important factors, because there is evidence of heterogeneity within the system.Keywords: Econometric models, university desertion, education system. IntroducciónEl sistema de educación superior chileno ha sufrido grande...

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AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF IDENTITY AND CAREER CHOICE^*

Cited by 65 publications

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Work norms, social insurance and the allocation of talent

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

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