Curdin Pfister
University of Zurich
20 Papers
36 Citations
Curdin Pfister is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Applied research & Vocational education. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 17 publications.
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Papers
Employment of R&D personnel after an educational supply shock: Effects of the introduction of Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine whether firms increase their employment of R&D personnel in response to an expansion of tertiary education institutions, i.e., a supply shock of skilled labor.
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Education Expansion and High-Skill Job Opportunities for Workers: Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors examined how education expansions affect the job opportunities for workers with and without the new education and identified causal effects, exploiting a quasi-random establishment of Universities of Applied Sciences (UASs), bachelor-granting three-year colleges that teach and conduct applied research.
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Earnings Returns to Different Educational Careers: The Relative Importance of Type vs. Field of Education
TL;DR: This paper used the Swiss Adult Education Survey from 2011 and constructed a sample of individuals with tertiary level educational degree, estimating earnings regressions and decomposing the variance in earnings for type of education and subject area.
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