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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Tonin, Mirco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271987
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Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703214
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822567
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The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education - we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763587
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The College Wage Gap in 10 European Countries: Evidence from Two Cohorts
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We study the recent evolution of the college wage gap with a unique data set that comprises two cohorts and 10 European countries from the early to mid 1980s to the mid to late 1990s. We find evidence of significant cross country differences in the level and dynamics of the gap. There is also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763686
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Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763749
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How Important Is Homeland Education for Refugees' Economic Position in The Netherlands?
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by … finding is the absence of returns to higher education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703020
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Exploring the Impact of Interrupted Education on Earnings: The Educational Cost of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
school certificates and more than 20 per cent prematurely stopped their education process at junior high school level …. However, these education responses do not appear to have translated into lower earnings. In addition, at each level of … education attainment most of the cohort experienced missed or interrupted schooling. We show, however, that given the education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703028
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La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy
Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six years of working career across three birth cohorts (1965-1969, 1970- 1974, 1975-1979). We explore the average trends and disentangle how the patterns vary according to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764614
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10011098410