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The effect of parents' employment on childen's educational attainment
Ermisch, John - 2000
parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …
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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders (contributor) - 2000
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful omnibus measureʺ of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
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How do parents raise the educational attainment of future generations?
Plug, Erik J. S. - 2002
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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen - 2002
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Intergenerational progress of Mexican-origin workers in the U.S. labor market
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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Long-term effects of unpaid overtime : evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
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Should I stay or should I go? Educational choices and earnings : an empirical study for Portugal
Modesto, Leonor - 2000
In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese educational system. At each potential exit level we consider two decisions: the decision to continue studying and the employment decision, whereas normally only the first decision...
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Rates of return to education : the view of students in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001
expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries … explained partially by the seniority of students, the self-perception of their academic performance and their subjective job … students show the necessity to analyse the question further with bigger and more representative samples. …
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