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parents decide on the extent of schooling for their children. Findings – Though education enhances the productivity of a … worker and thereby increases the wage of an educated worker, it was found that a portion of children drop out of school … parents intrinsically value education and also because of the wage premium, which is a strictly positive function of the time …
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In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
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This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for Portugal. The main conclusions are the following. First, Portu-gal is one of the OECD countries with lowest educational level. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and...
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of the level of development on education outcomes by constructing different efficiency frontiers for lower- and higher-income … economies. We find evidence of large potential gains in enrollment rates by improving efficiency. These are largest in lower-income … reducing income inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) could also help improve efficiency. …
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This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education and wages at dierent quantiles of the conditional...
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The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising. Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...
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markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …
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We use a credible regression discontinuity design to estimate causal education effects. Pupils in the Swiss education system had to pass a centrally organized exam that classified them into different levels of secondary school, and that ultimately determined their educational degree. A major...
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income equation - but as a set of elements whoselength depends on the number of identifi ed poverty dimensions. The … monetaryanalysis employs the Quantile Regression technique, very helpful especiallywhen one is interested in extremes of the income …
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(english) The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of education on labor market entry, particularly on earnings in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo. We examine firsthand data from the 2009 Congo's Employment and Informal Sector Survey (Enquête sur l’emploi et le secteur...
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