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Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers
Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419546
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Firm-Sponsored Training, Technical Progress and Aggregate Performance in a Micro-Macro Model
Ballot, Gérard; Taymaz, Erol - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818518
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Education, Competence Development and Economic Growth - A Micro Explanation to Macro Economic Growth
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685071
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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption.
Hauk, E.; Saez-Marti, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with different levels of corruption.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670116
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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption
Hauk, Esther; Sáez-Martí, María - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
corruption. The driving force in the equilibrium selection process is the education effort exerted by parents which depends on … interventions which via parents' efforts have long-lasting effects on corruption and show the success of intensive education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419498
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Corporate Job Ladders in Europe: Wage Premia for University vs. High School Level Positions
Mellander, E.; Skedinger, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
This paper presents an empirical investigation of earnings for private-sector engineers and business administrators in seven European countries - Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK. The analysis is based on a large micro-data set that is ideally suited for international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639305
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement?
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645355
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Density, Social Networks and Job Search Methods: Theory and Application to Egypt
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
The aim of this paper is to study the impact of the size and the quality of social networks on the probability to find a job. We first develop a theoretical model in which individuals are embedded within a network of social relationships. Workers can obtain information about jobs via employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645445
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Estimation of Wage Gains and Welfare Gains from Self-Selection Models
Björklund, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
In this paper we consider the basic self-selection model for the effects of education, training, unions, and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684461
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A Procedure for Testing the Signalling Hypothesis
Albrecht, James W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1980
is to examine directly the question of whether employers use education for purely informational purposes in their hiring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684533