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The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000

Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

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Asynchronous Risk: Unemployment, Equity Markets, and Retirement Savings

Seligman, Jason S.; Wenger, Jeffrey B. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

The link between unemployment and pension accumulations is conceptually straightforward; periods of unemployment lead to lower pension contributions, and thus to lower accumulations. However, impacts on accumulation may differ as a result of the timing and frequency of unemployment spells. We...

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Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage

Dillender, Marcus - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly …

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Program Applicants as a Comparison Group in Evaluating Training Programs: Theory and a Test

Hoffman, Emily P. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This volume introduces a number of issues critical to the topic the economics of education including school financing …

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Job Accessibility and the Employment and School Enrollment of Teenagers

Ihlanfeldt, Keith - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Ihlanfeldt presents data that strongly support the "spatial mismatch hypothesis" for the high unemployment rate of disadvantaged teens. This theory, which the author thoroughly outlines in this work, asserts that the suburbanization of low-skill jobs and continued housing market segregation have...

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By a Thread: How Child Care Centers Hold On to Teachers, How Teachers Build Lasting Careers

Whitebook, Marcy; Sakai, Laura - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Whitebook and Sakai examine how child care programs and their staff subsist in a field characterized by low pay, low status, and high turnover and what the impacts of these factors are on the quality of child care provided.

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An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools

Eberts, Randall W.; Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

competition and new innovations in the provision of education, the evidence from this study implies that they will need to make up …

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The Returns to Education and Basic Skills Training for Individuals with Poor Health or Disability

Hollenbeck, Kevin; Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

This paper examines linkages between disability and health status and the returns to education and basic skills … equations with education and basic skills training among the independent variables. The NALS data set allows us to control for … that the returns to education for individuals with a disability or poor health are positive, although of moderate size and …

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How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper, we study the impact of Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent suburban districts. We...

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