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La elección del sector laboral y los retornos a la educación en Guatemala
Alejos, Luis Alejandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
presence of workers without monetary earnings in the economy, factors whose omission can potentially lead to sample selection … to different levels of schooling using a human capital earnings function. A multinomial logit model for sector choice is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110200
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The US/Canada Difference in Postsecondary Educational Choice
Hui, Taylor Shek-wai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper attempts to tackle the puzzle of why more Canadians choose community colleges over universities than their American counterparts, when previous research has suggested that the return to community college education is low in Canada. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559297
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An investigation into the positive effect of an educated wife on her husband’s earnings: the case of Japan in the period between 2000 and 2003.
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … suggestive evidence that educated wives increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025312
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Skill bias, age and organizational change
O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109432
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Literacy and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap
Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Being able to read and write is one of the most important skills in modern economies. Literacy frequently is a prerequisite for employment and its relevance for productivity and wages is magnified by the fact that it is only through literacy that many other skills become usable. More so than for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109471
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The Impact of Work-Related Training on Employee Earnings: Evidence from Great Britain.
Panos, Sousounis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-related training on earnings levels. Different measures for general and specific training are constructed from available information …. The analysis diverges from the standard fixed effects framework for earnings determination modelling and presents evidence … effects formulation for the earnings equation suggested by Nijman and Verbeek (1992) for controlling for attrition bias in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623408
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The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A.; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093723
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The role of education in wage determination in China's rural industrial sector
meng, xin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
The TVP labour market has undergone a great change during the economic reform period. Starting from a fully controlled recruitment system, more employees obtained employment through a more market oriented mechanism. This study applies human capital theory to investigate the impact of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789977
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Over-education for the rich, under-education for the poor: a search-theoretic microfoundation
Charlot, Olivier; Decreuse, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper studies the efficiency of educational choices in a two sector/two schooling level matching model of the labour market where a continuum of heterogenous workers allocates itself between sectors depending on their decision to invest in education. Individuals differ in ability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836840
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Conscription and the returns to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity
mouganie, pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
graduation rates, or in employment and wages. Additional evidence shows conscription has no direct effect on earnings, suggesting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212582