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Title:
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School Dropouts and the Local Labor Markets: The Role of the Skills Structure of the Employment
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Author:
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Díaz Serrano, Lluís; Nilsson, William,
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Other authors:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
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Abstract:
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A small number of studies have examined the impact of local labor market
conditions (unemployment) on school dropout rates. However, none of them have
considered the role of the employment structure (skilled vs. non-skilled). In Spain,
there exist a high degree of regional heterogeneity in both the type of employment
and the school dropout behavior. In this paper we stablish a link between these
two phenomena. We construct data for a panel of Spanish regions and identify the
effect of local labor (regional) markets using the variation in the share of
employment by industry and gender across regions and over time. In contrast with
the previous literature, we use a model with regional fixed effects and regionspecific slopes, which allows us to control for not only for time-constant, but also
for time-varying unobserved heterogeneity across regions. We show that, respect
to models than only include the commonly used region fixed-effects, estimated
effects of the employment variables vary substantially if we also include regionspecific slopes. We find a sizable impact of the employment structure and observe
that, in markets with a larger share of low-skill employment, the school dropout
rate is significantly larger, though the industries affecting boys and girls are
different. Our results suggest that the supply of skilled employment in the
economy may allow an important share of school dropouts to be kept in school. |
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Publication date:
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2018 |
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Subject (UDC):
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331 - Treball. Relacions laborals. Ocupació. Organització del treball
37 - Educació. Ensenyament. Formació. Temps lliure |
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Subject(s):
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Mercat de treball
Competències professionals
Abandó dels estudis (Educació secundària)
Espanya |
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Rights:
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L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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Pages:
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39 p. |
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Document type:
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Working Paper |
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Published by:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública
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Collection:
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Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2018-28
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