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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369113
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Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications
Polachek, Solomon William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
earn more than blacks; why occupational distributions differ by gender; why geographic and job mobility predominate among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247701
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper explores secular changes in women’s pay relative to men’s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts … a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822883
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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A.; Lopez, Mary J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536012
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Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India
López Bóo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775112
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Too Many Graduates? An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model to Young British Graduates between 2001-2010
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959781
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Graduate Employment in the UK: An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model
Grazier, Suzanne; O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703371
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Principal Accountability at Private Secondary Schools
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Increasing interest in voucher programs and privatizing public schools reveals a commonlyheld belief that private schools are better able to produce a quality education. While state and national standards do not directly affect these schools, their private control yields strong student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703741
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Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
robust to different specifications and estimation models. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822469
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Estimating Complementarity between Education and Training
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Kristensen, Nicolai - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of post-schooling training that explicitly allows for possible complementarity between initial schooling levels and returns to training. Precisely, the wage outcome equation depends on accumulated schooling and on the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822763