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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John - 2016

graduates instead of the high unobserved ability of students who choose to attend post-secondary education. To this end, the … experienced greater disruptions, children's educational attainment became less correlated with that of their fathers and more … selection of high-ability students into higher education. The analysis also demonstrates that these results are unlikely to be …

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Returns to Education in the Economic Transition : A Systematic Assessment Using Comparable Data

Flabbi, Luca - 2016

This paper examines the assertion that returns to schooling increase as an economy transitions to a market environment. This claim has been difficult to assess as existing empirical evidence covers only a few countries over short time periods. A number of studies find that returns to education...

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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials and Returns to Education in Djibouti

Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2016

of their personal attributes and human capital endowments, and are more likely to be males and have parents in the public …

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Returns to Education in Azerbaijan : Some New Estimates

Garcia Moreno, Vicente A. - 2020

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns...

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International Competition, Returns to Skill, and Labor Market Adjustment

Falvey, Rod - 2018

Does increased import competition lead to higher returns to skill within an industry and, therefore, to greater incentives for skill acquisition? Does it also induce skill upgrading by the industry?s existing workforce? To answer these questions, this paper follows individual workers across...

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Employment Structure and Returns to Skill in Vietnam : Estimates Using the Labor Force Survey

Demombynes, Gabriel - 2018

This paper uses Labor Force Survey data to assess key aspects of the labor market in Vietnam over 2007-14. The analysis finds large growth in wage employment in the foreign-owned and domestic private sectors. However, the state sector remains a major employer, particularly for workers with...

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A Primer on Human Capital

Flabbi, Luca - 2018

human capital and income growth. Rather than completeness, the objective of this work is to distill some of the most … (sections 2, 3 and 4). The note then reviews the micro empirical literature estimating labor income returns of human capital …

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Returns to Investment in Education : The Case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry A. - 2019

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

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Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico

Levy, Santiago - 2019

Over the last two decades, Mexico has experienced macroeconomic stability, an open trade regime, and substantial progress in education. Yet average workers' earnings have stagnated, and earnings of those with higher schooling have fallen, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the...

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More than Schooling : Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill are Available

Gunewardena, Dileni - 2018

schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle-income …

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