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1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …
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distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is known about the contribution of differences in relative wages …
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-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …
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, Efficiency in acquiring destination language proficiency, including education, age at migration and linguistic distance, among …
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returns to schooling and over-education rates by country-of-origin. The key finding is that accounting for schooling quality … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …
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Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … productivity developments and help businesses to weather the COVID-19 shock. Building on the population’s solid education levels by … substantial boost to professional education and training at all levels and ages. This chapter applies the 2018 OECD Jobs Strategy …
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capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level … relevant teacher training, and sustained competitiveness of higher education institutions as key areas for improvement. It also … points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …
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Recent research concludes that wage returns to cognitive skills have declined in the U.S. We reassess this finding. Using decomposition methods, we document the pivotal role played by dynamic shifts in the distributions of pre-labor market cognitive skills. Our findings show these shifts explain...
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the range of 10-15%. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We investigate whether …
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
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