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Preschoolers' self-regulation, skill differentials, and early educational outcomes

Quis, Johanna Sophie; Bela, Anika; Heineck, Guido - 2019

Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such … early life differences mark the onset of increasing disparities in competence development? We add to previous research by … investigating the relationship between preschoolers' self-regulation and their mathematical competence and its development early in …

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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa : implication for development policies

Dimova, Ralitza (contributor); … - 2008

With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...

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Graduate employment in the UK : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model

Grazier, Suzanne (contributor); O'Leary, Nigel (contributor) - 2008

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...

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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico

Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008

This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of...

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Estimating complementarity between education and training

Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2008

In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of post-schooling training that explicitly allows for possible complementarity between initial schooling levels and returns to training. Precisely, the wage outcome equation depends on accumulated schooling and on the incidence of...

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The return to a university education in Great Britain

Sloane, Peter J. (contributor); O'Leary, Nigel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Cyclical skill-biased technological change

Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2009

Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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Returns to education and macroeconomic shocks : evidence from Argentina

López Bóo, Florencia - 2010

Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic volatility. In this paper I provide the most consistent estimates of returns to education so far, while I also investigate earnings profiles over time. This paper contributes to...

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