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Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers

Non, Arjan - 2011

By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that...

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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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A Signaling Model of University Selection

Anic, Ivan; Bozin, Vladimir; Urosevic, Branko - 2021

We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under …

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2009

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...

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Beyond the Classroom : Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions : Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure

McGuigan, Martin - 2014

in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … and benefits of staying on in education. We compare the effects of a specially designed information campaign to the …, we find that an inexpensive information campaign can be effective in improving information and reducing perceived …

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