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Estimating the Skill Bias in Agglomeration Externalities and Social Returns to Education: Evidence from Dutch Matched Worker-Firm Micro-data

Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. … relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of …

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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 …

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Journal of Economics"</A>, 112(3), 618-39.<P>The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per …. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data …

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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem 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>

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Aggregate Real Wages: Macro Fluctuations and Micro Drivers

Daly, Mary C.; Hobijn, Bart; Wiles, Theodore S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

the growth rate of real wages over time. We employ a novel decomposition technique that allowsus to divide the time series … procyclicality islargely offset by the change in the composition of the workforce, leading aggregate real wages to be almost … noncyclical.Most of this composition effect works through the part-time employment margin. Remarkably, theunemployment margin …

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Seeing the World with Different Eyes

Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...

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Survey Non-response and Unemployment Duration

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; Dolton, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a bias. We study this by using a data set that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records of the same workers. The latter provide information on...

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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper has led to a publication in the <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272710000721">'Journal of Public Economics'</A>. The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into...</a>

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Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies

Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do …

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