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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …
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This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow … imputed "highest grade completed" is one-tenth grade greater and the estimated return to education .6 to 1 percentage points …
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Significant numbers of employees work more hours in the workplace than their contract stipulates. Such overtime work can either be paid or unpaid. This research considers overtime working in Germany and the UK and shows that the quantitative significance of both paid and unpaid overtime is...
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Education is widely recognized as one of the most important determinants of earnings in the labour market. A main … aspect of the relationship between education and earnings is the wage premium between workers with higher and lower education …. In this study I analyze the evolution of wage premiums of attaining further education in the Republic of Cyprus. The …
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic … discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic …
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We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
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Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education requires a solid grasp of the impact of student autonomy …
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