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The impact of trade liberalization on the return to education in Vietnam : wage versus employment effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Doan Hong Quang - 2010
that the impact was large in Vietnam but is severely underestimated if changes in employment opportunities are ignored. …. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386195
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The impact of trade liberalization on the return to education in Vietnam : wage versus employment effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Doan Hong Quang - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008938577
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Premature deindustrialization through the lens of occupations : which jobs, why, and where?
Kunst, David - 2019 - Revision: August 2, 2019
A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the … transitory. In this article, I use a new data set on manufacturing employment by occupation to do cument four stylized facts ab … spared from premature job losses. Overall, the employment patterns are consistent with a pervasive shift of the "automation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025990
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Changing returns to education in Portugal during the 1980s and early 1990s : OLS and quantile regression estimators
Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vieira, José … - 1999
This paper examines the evolution of the returns to education in Portugal over the 1980s andearly 1990s. The main findings indicate that the returns to education have increased,particularly after joining the European Union in 1986. Since this occurred along with anincrease in the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300558
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Parental education and child health : evidence from a schooling reform
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350377
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Changing returns to education in Portugal during the 1980s and early 1990s : OLS and quantile regression estimators
Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vieira, José … - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000168258
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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736923
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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 by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532574
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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010
violations of the strong validity assumption affect the estimation results. We show that, in case of moderate direct effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381026
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Labor market prospects, search intensity and the transition from college to work
Klaauw, Bas van der; Vuuren, Aico van; Berkhout, Peter - 2004
. Our estimation results show that a 1 percent point decrease in unemployment rate increases wage offers with 3 percent …. Employment rates at graduation could be increased from 40 percent to 65 percent if all individuals start job search 6 month prior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335207