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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 … details. These findings render the conclusion that compulsory schooling in Germany yields no wage returns at a minimum …

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COVID-Induced School Closures in the US and Germany : Long-Term Distributional Effects

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022

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, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …

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Firm Training

Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023

Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...

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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’s degrees. We use individual fixed effects models on the matched sample of students and non-students from Finland to capture any time-invariant differences across individuals....

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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 for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...

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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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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 financial aid recipients and exploiting sharp discontinuities in the amount of aid received, this paper identifies the causal effect of aid generosity on college performance and...

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Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics : New Evidence from a Global Law Firm

Ganguli, Ina - 2020

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law firms and operates in 23 countries. The sample includes countries at different stages of...

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Skill Mismatch and the Costs of Job Displacement

Neffke, Frank; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2022

histories in Germany between 1975 and 2010. We estimate difference-in-differences models, using a sample in which we match …

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