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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496536
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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507980
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That elusive elasticity : a long-panel approach to estimating the capital-labor substitution elasticity : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Chirinko, Robert S.; Fazzari, Steven M.; Meyer, Andrew P. - 2004
The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor features prominently in several areas of economic research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450090
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor);  … - 2006
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301163
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Great expectations and hard times : the (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535092
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235845
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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk
Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338707
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307
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The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany
Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - 2003
This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507889
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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : international evidence
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003
decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509528