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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings
Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be modeled in various ways, as well as observing earnings growth before and … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822761
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Long-Term Effects of Class Size
Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...
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Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods within countries. It uses the Over-Under-Required education approach to occupations, a new...
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ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039647
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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
education with respect to estimates based on OLS methods. We also show that adding family background variables to the set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763587
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The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469715
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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103258