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The intergenerational effects of compulsory schooling
Page, Marianne E. (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003230970
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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...
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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...
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Understanding gender differences in stem : evidence from college applications
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125011
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Choosing differently? : college application behavior and the persistence of educational advantage
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2020
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What sets college thrivers and divers apart? : a contrast in study habits, attitudes, and mental health
Beattie, Graham; Laliberté, Jean-William P.; … - 2017
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A professor like me : the influence of instructor gender on college achievement
Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2007
subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to …-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …
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When opportunity knocks, who answers? : new evidence on college achievement awards
Angrist, Joshua D.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Williams, Tyler - 2010
"We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …
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