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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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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 … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

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Does education reduce the risk of hypertension? : estimating the biomarker effect of compulsory schooling in England

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010

This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...

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Youth crime and education expansion

Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2012

We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post …-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The education expansion raised education levels across the … whole education distribution and, in particular for our analysis, at the bottom end enabling us to develop an instrumental …

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Education, health and fertility of UK immigrants : the role of English language skills

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2015

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of …

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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?

Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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Who wins? Evaluating the impact of UK public sector pension scheme reforms

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter J.; Bondibene, … - 2016

sector schemes by level of education. Specifically, we simulate the occupation specific Defined Benefit (DB) pension wealth … Police and Fire forces who have lost around 40% irrespective of their education. …

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High performance work systems and public sector workplace performance in Britain

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...

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Labour market flows : accounting for the public sector

Fontaine, Idriss; Galvez-Iniesta, Ismael; Gomes, Pedro; … - 2019

education. We decompose contributions of private and public job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the …

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HPWS in the public sector : are there mutual gains?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018

Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...

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