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dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial …
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
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education, experience and industry variables have important, variable and differing impacts upon both participation and income …
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A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates' productivity. I model various distinct sources of signal imperfection - such as noise and multi-dimensional types - and characterize their implications for the private return to skill...
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This paper adds to the small literature on the consequences of education-occupation mismatches. It examines the income … penalty for field of education – occupation mismatches for men and women with higher education in Sweden and reveals that the …, at least for Swedish men. The income penalty for men decreases with work experience which is an indication that education …
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
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This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …
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A simple classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution is developed in which education transforms low … who only receive wage income into one in which education and human capital play a major role. We show than an expansion in … education can have a positive effect on growth but by altering the distribution of income rather than by fostering technological …
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