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measure ‘income’). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …
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Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
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The paper studies the effects of cross-country differences in the productionprocess of human capital on income … effect upon intragenerational income inequality and growth along theequilibrium path. We also indicate how the level of …
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The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy ….Heterogeneity in income results from the distribution of human capital acrossindividuals in a non-degenerate way. The human capital … production is affected by 'home-education' , provided bythe parents, as well as 'public-education , which is provided equally to …
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This paper examines the evolution of the returns to education in Portugal over the 1980s andearly 1990s. The main findings indicate that the returns to education have increased,particularly after joining the European Union in 1986. Since this occurred along with anincrease in the level of...
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of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise income by an average of 5.5 percent, which is close to the average …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training.The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration theworkers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some randomevent. The point estimate of the return to...
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In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and … an important route for students from a lower socioeconomic background. …
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