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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?
Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education … atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - Tinbergen Instituut
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256636
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
considerable difficulties in the Dutch labour market. The most remarkable conclusion is the irrelevance of education for socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256701
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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The Educational Bias in Commuting Patterns: Micro-Evidence for the Netherlands
Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Veneri, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This study analyses the relation between education and commuting behaviour of Dutch workers. Results show that, ceteris …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257066
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/660798">'The Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, 29(4), 859-92.<p>This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257435
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of … countries and the US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive … education, the greater the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are …
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How Risky is Investment in Human Capital?
Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257594