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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …
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Sibling Influence on the Human Capital of the Left Behind
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left behind, this is the first study to highlight the importance of sibling interactions in such a context. Using panel data from the RUMiC Survey, we find that sibling influence on...
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A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers
Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline the importance of programs that encourage early school leavers to return to post-school...
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Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Stenberg, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. The results are strongest among males and those with low educated...
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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur's skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third,...
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...
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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy concern. Does an equilibrium limit exist? The issue has been left open in recent dynamic models which take income growth and population aging as given. We view these variables as...
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Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for...
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