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Returns to Skills Around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276778
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How much do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727279
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752162
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - CESifo - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736745