Similar Search Results

When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270418

Occupation growth, skill prices, and wage inequality

Böhm, Michael; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Schran, Felix - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110206

Who gains when workers train? Training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2000

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330311

Gender differences in persistence in a field of study

Kaganovič, Michail I.; Taylor, Morgan; Xiao, Ruli - 2021

Weaker retention of women in quantitatively oriented fields, particularly STEM* is widely seen in US higher education. This persistence gap is often explained by less generous grading in these fields and the conjectured tendency of female students to generally exhibit stronger "sensitivity" to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514960

Trade-offs in choosing a college major

Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2023

Recent empirical analyses reveal substantial differences in the choices of college majors between demographic and socio-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best documented and salient are the differences...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364698

Can education compensate low ability? Evidence from british data

Denny, Kevin; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2004

This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether the returns to education vary with the level of ability. Using a measure of cognitive ability based on tests taken at ages 7 and 11 we find, unlike most of the existing literature, clear evidence that the return to schooling is lower for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292976

Educational reform, ability and family background

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2004

In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms in other European countries including the UK, consisted of increasing compulsor schooling,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293084

The Impact of Education and Training on the Labour Market Experiences of Young Adults

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm - 2000

This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a multinomial logit model to analyze whether individuals exit school to employment, unemployment or higher education. Family...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330363

The economic returns to schooling for Italians: An evaluation based on instrumental variables

Brunello, Giorgio; Miniaci, Raffaele - 1998

We study the relationship between (log) current earnings and educational levels in Italy. In line with other international evidence, we find that OLS under-estimate the marginal return to additional education. When the endogeneity of educational choice is taken into account, the marginal return...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608375

The returns to education in Italy: A new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608564