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Estimating the skill bias in agglomeration externalities and social returns to education : evidence from Dutch matched worker-firm micro-data
Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2014
density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …
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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 stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more...
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Returns to routine job tasks in the German labour market : an instrumental variables approach
Mihaylov, Emil - 2021 - Revision November 2021
This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally … associated with workers hourly wages; the negative effect of routine tasks is most pronounced in high-skilled non …-intensity of the workers' own occupation in 1979. The estimation procedure rests on the assumption that the two instruments are …
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van - 2020
We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and … expected real wage growth and expected initial wages across majors. Furthermore, the differences in these expectations appear …
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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 private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2001
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Dual track or academic route for auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2002
make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages … of differently educated auditors are supported by the estimation results in this paper. The part-time, dual track appears …
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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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Digital urban network connectivity : global and Chinese internet patterns
Tranos, Emmanouil; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
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