On-the-Job Search and Optimal Schooling under Uncertainty and Irreversibility
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- Anna Zaharieva, 2014. "On-the-Job Search and Optimal Schooling under Uncertainty and Irreversibility," Politica economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 2-3, pages 299-339.
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Keywords
wage dispersion; on-the-job search; uncertainty; Optimal schooling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2013-12-06 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-EDU-2013-12-06 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2013-12-06 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2013-12-06 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2013-12-06 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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