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Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates : The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

Bertoni, Marco - 2017

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

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'For One More Year With You' : Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - 2021

inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2021

Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further ﬁnd that sheepskin effect are only important for workers in...

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Education and earnings growth : evidence from 11 European countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000

We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...

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Sheepskin effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2002

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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Weißhaar, Natalia - 2013

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired Under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...

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The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education Over the Life Cycle : Evidence from Two British Cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio - 2015

Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster and individuals with this type of education are less capable of adapting to technical change....

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Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training : Evidence from Italian Regions

Brunello, Giorgio - 2010

We use the variation of training policy over time and across Italian regions to identify the relationship between individual training and earnings. Using longitudinal data for the period 1999 to 2005, we find that the marginal effect of one additional week of formal training on monthly earnings...

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