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This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public educational policy are examined. The estimations are based...
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Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race...
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This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The...
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This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997. Based on simple Mincer-type wage equations, we estimate a return of about 8% for men and 10% for women, and these returns have remained remarkably stable over the period. On the...
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This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German full-time employees in the private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the...
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Wir analysieren die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen in Westdeutschland in der Periode von 1984 bis 1997 auf der Basis der Humankapitaltheorie mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels. Die Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen mit etwa 10% eine signifikant höhere durchschnittliche...
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Rural elderly have 40% of the income of those in urban areas, spend a larger share of their income on food, are in … worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The … with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …
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if the children of well-educated parents paid the public costs of their schooling, and these tuition revenues facilitated … the expansion of higher education and financed fellowships for children of the poor and less educated parents. …, are not needed to motivate students to enroll, and those who have in the past enrolled in these levels of education are …
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and child mortality, life expectation, and school enrollment rates, controlling for national income, women's and men … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in … most other low-income settings. …
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, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the productive returns from these three forms of human capital investment are …
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