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Interpreting sheepskin effects of investment in schooling

Shabbir, Tayyeb; Ashraf, Javed - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 202-215

In the last few years, significant amount of research has produced evidence in support of the signaling, credential or "sheepskin" effects in rates of return to schooling for studies of the developed as well as developing countries. An example of the former is the seminal empirical work by...

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Costs of globalization

Kayani, Farrukh Nawaz; Zhongxiu, Zhao; Shah, M. Tahir Ali; … - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 6 (2012) 2, pp. 372-381

Globalization has both costs and benefits. In this paper we would focus upon one of the damages of globalization to China. It is said that inward FDI replaces local domestic capabilities in import-substitution countries. In the case of China the Chinese domestic industries are lacking...

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Labor economics

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 2004

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Ashenfelter, Orley (contributor) - 1999

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Labor economics

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Zylberberg, André - 2014 - Second edition

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Retornos a la educación en Guatemala: Rentabilidad disminuye

Díaz Castellanos, Guillermo Osvaldo - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 2 (2019) 1

This research is about the returns of education in Guatemala, based on the theory of human capital and the model of Mincer, which is the most used for this type of studies with the objective of comparing the returns of the years 2002 and 2018. The database used in the estimates, using ordinary...

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015), pp. 56-82

into playing music, we take into account detailed information on the child and its parents, which may determine both the …

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Bildungsrenditen von Vollzeitbeschäftigten in Deutschland: der Osten hat aufgeholt

Anger, Silke; Lupo, Katie - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 10, pp. 149-157

Fast 20 Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer und dem damit in Ostdeutschland verbundenen Übergang auf eine Marktwirtschaft bestehen zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland immer noch Unterschiede in der Entlohnung von Humankapital. Auswertungen der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) für...

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Affirmative action and university fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-29

better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …

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PISA 2000: Die internationale Schulleistungsstudie

Ochel, Wolfgang - In: ifo Schnelldienst 55 (2002) 05, pp. 21-26

Die Zusammenfassung stellt dar, was untersucht wurde und zu welchen Resultaten die PISA-Studie führte.

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