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Education and happiness : an alternative hypothesis
Nikolaev, Boris; Rusakov, Pavel - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 10/12, pp. 827-830
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Education and risk compensation in wages : a quantile regression approach
Vieira, José António Cabral; Constância, Carolina; … - In: Applied economics letters 27 (2020) 3, pp. 194-198
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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe : A Wage Decomposition Approach
McGuinness, Seamus - 2016
rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the estimation of the effect of overeducation on earnings. Oaxaca … tertiary education graduates, whereas job characteristics and low skill content of jobs explain most of the wage gap for medium …
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Is Additional Schooling Worthless? Revising the Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018
This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
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Effects of the Bologna Reform on Educational Outcomes : Micro Evidence from Germany
Hahm, Sabrina - 2016
The Bologna Process aimed at harmonizing European higher education systems and at increasing their efficiency. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983019
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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie - 2010
, overall, education and labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive significantly lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148336
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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany
Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2021
Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In …
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment : The German Case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
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