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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186787
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Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of Covid-19-related school closures through the human capital channel
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023
the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252528
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
longitudinal matched employer-employee data set from Austria. Our results show that firms with strong preferences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897627
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Nonparametric evidence on the effects of financial incentives on retirement decisions
Manoli, Day; Weber, Andrea - 2014
analysis is based on a mandated rule for employer-provided retirement benefits in Austria that creates discontinuities in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237188
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Clash of career and family : fertility decisions after job displacement
Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630457