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The public-private sector wage differential in the UK : evidence from longitudinal employer-employee data
Singleton, Carl - In: Economics letters 174 (2019), pp. 109-113
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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532574
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325967
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Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance : does schooling provide earnings insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383274
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472300
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The payment of public sector workers in the UK : reconciliation with North American findings
Blackaby, David; Murphy, P. D.; O'Leary, Nigel - In: Economics letters 65 (1999) 2, pp. 239-243
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378332
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Parental education, labor market experience and earnings : new wine in an old bottle?
Hudson, John; Sessions, John G. - In: Economics letters 113 (2011) 2, pp. 112-115
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Non-cognitive peer effects in early education : the influence of children born to teenage mothers on peers’ behavioral problems
Gagete-Miranda, Jessica; Meschi, Elena; Pagani, Laura - In: Economics letters 236 (2024), pp. 1-3
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Does tackling poverty related barriers to education improve school outcomes? : evidence from the North East of England.
Beeson, Morgan; Wildman, Josephine M.; Wildman, John - In: Economics letters 236 (2024), pp. 1-3
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