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The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration

Lang, Kevin; Baker, Olesya - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...

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The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7

Lang, Kevin; Bond, Timothy N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We address the ordinality of test scores by rescaling them by the average eventual educational attainment of students with a given test score in a given grade. We show that measurement error in test scores causes this approach to underestimate the black-white test score gap and use an...

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The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results

Lang, Kevin; Bond, Timothy N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Although both economists and psychometricians typically treat them as interval scales, test scores are reported using ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine the effect of order-preserving scale transformations...

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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Lang, Kevin; Siniver, Erez - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross …-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education … explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of …

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Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel

Lang, Kevin; Siniver, Erez - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a professional undergraduate college, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS). Our results support a model in...

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Why Do Firms Invest in General Training? 'Good' Firms and 'Bad' Firms as a Source of Monopsony Power

Booth, Alison L; Zoega, Gylfi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We develop a model demonstrating conditions under which firms will invest in the general training of their workers, and show that firms’ incentives to invest in general training are increasing in task complexity. Workers’ heterogeneous observable innate ability affects the variety of tasks...

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Quitting Externalities with Uncertainty about Future Productivity

Booth, Alison L; Zoega, Gylfi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper looks at the effect of quitting on the number of workers trained under conditions of uncertainty about future productivity when workers have both firm-specific and industry-specific skills. A new effect is found which works in the opposite direction to the undertraining result of...

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Quitting Externalities, Employment Cyclicality and Firing Costs

Booth, Alison L; Zoega, Gylfi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper derives a model in which workers have firm-specific and industry-specific skills, and in each period there is a non-zero probability that a worker quits. This makes the private discount factor, used by firms in making decisions about hiring and training new workers and firing existing...

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Training, Rent-Sharing and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Francesconi, Marco; Zoega, Gylfi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We investigate two dimensions of investment in general human capital on-the-job: the number of workers trained and the intensity of training for each worker. In the benchmark case, we consider wage and training decisions made by firms in an imperfectly competitive labour market. The benchmark...

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If You're so Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Wage Inequality with Heterogenous Workers?

Booth, Alison L; Zoega, Gylfi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper provides microfoundations for wage compression by modelling wage-setting in a world of heterogeneous workers and firms. Workers are differentiated by observable innate ability. A high-ability worker confers on a firm an externality, since their ability raises the average level of...

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