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Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling
Böckerman, Petri - 2018
This paper examines the labor-market returns to a new form of postsecondary vocational education, vocational master …
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How Does For-Profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?
Armona, Luis - 2019
For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … point to low returns to for-profit enrollment that have important implications for public investments in higher education as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889756
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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change : The Canonical Model Revisited
Bowlus, Audra; Robinson, M. Chris; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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COVID-Induced School Closures in the US and Germany : Long-Term Distributional Effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
Almost all countries worldwide closed schools at the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis. I document that schooling time dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas,...
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The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College : Comparing the Labor-Market Returns to For-Profit Schools and Community Colleges
Jepsen, Christopher; Mueser, Peter; Troske, Kenneth; … - 2021
This paper provides novel evidence on the labor-market returns to for-profit postsecondary school and community college attendance using a two-step model to avoid recent concerns with single-stage fixed effects methods. Specifically, we link administrative records on for-profit school and...
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The Effects of Financial Aid on Graduation and Labor Market Outcomes : New Evidence from Matched Education-Labor Data
Rattini, Veronica - 2022
Financial aid decreases the cost of acquiring additional education. By using Italian administrative and survey data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243160
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background … (Native Germans"). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare … Native Germans with the same formal education level. This empirical analysis is done with a completely new dataset based on …
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The Effect of Ability Matching and Differentiated Instruction in Financial Literacy Education - Evidence from Two Randomised Control Trials
Iterbeke, Kaat - 2020
eighth and ninth grade students in a financial education programme. In particular, the effect of within-class ability … impact of the financial education programme. The paper provides evidence on the effects of both practices using two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844431
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Wage Risk and the Skill Premium
Slavík, Ctirad - 2020
The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824576