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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

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The short-run macro implications of school and child-care closures

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michele - 2020

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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Returns to ICT skills

Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016

How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...

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The college wealth divide : education and inequality in America, 1956-2016

Bartscher, Alina K.; Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz - 2019

Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and noncollege households in the … considerably larger than the college income premium. Over the past four decades, the wealth of American households with a …

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International emigrant selection on occupational skills

Patt, Alexander; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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Which ladder to climb? : wages of workers by job, plant, and education

Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2018

Wages grow but also become more unequal as workers age. Using German administrative data, we largely attribute both life-cycle facts to one driving force: some workers progress in hierarchy to jobs with more responsibility, complexity, and independence. In short, they climb the career ladder....

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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Economic freedom, human rights, and the returns to human capital : an evaluation of the Schultz hypothesis

King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio; Orazem, Peter F. - 2010

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Returns to education in the economic transition : a systematic assessment using comparable data

Flabbi, Luca; Paternostro, Stefano; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2007

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