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Self-selection in the market of teachers

Correa, Juan A.; Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 13/15, pp. 1331-1349

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Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?

de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2010

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult education for the period 1979-2004 and annual earnings 1982-2004. We … match samples of treated individuals, in adult education 1986-1989, and untreated on the propensity score. The timing of …

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Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?

Lindert, Peter H. - 2002

The debate over whether political democracy is the least bad regime, as Churchill once said, remains unresolved because history has been ignored or misread, and because recent statistical studies have not chosen the right tests. Using too little historical information, and mistaking formal...

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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those …

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Growing with inequality : a DSGE model with heterogeneous human capital and endogenous economic growth

Mu, Junlin; Yan, Lipeng; Wu, Shanshan - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 32, pp. 3689-3715

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The fallacy of the Good Samaritan: Volunteering as a weird way of making money

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J - 2004

This paper explores individual motives for volunteering: The analysis is based on the interpretation of volunteering as a consumption good (consumption model) or as a mean to increase individual’s own human capital (investment model). We present an econometric framework taking into account...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

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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Personnel training: A theoretical and empirical review

Ericson, Thomas - 2005

This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are discussed, and empirical research on wage effects is...

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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation: The role of workplaces and occupations

Eliasson, Tove - 2013

This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...

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Horizontal and vertical polarization: Task-specific technological change in a multi-sector economy

Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2019

We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...

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