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A panel study of immigrants' overeducation and earnings in Australia
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2017
penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … data, the panel approach addresses individual heterogeneity effects (motivation, ability, and compensating differentials … effects. Second, based on panel fixed effects analyses there is no penalty for overeducation for ESB immigrants. However, NESB …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776014
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Over-education and immigrant earnings: a penalized quantile panel regression analysis
Maani, Sholeh A.; Wen, Le - 2021
considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using longitudinal data and penalized quantile panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431190
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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307980
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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?
Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014
been very little work on the implications for the estimation of socioeconomic gradients in test scores in the international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398844
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Are computer skills the new basic skills? : The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001749995
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Part-time employment can be a life-time setback for earnings : a study of British women 1975 - 2001
Connolly, Sara (contributor); Gregory, Mary (contributor) - 2007
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561668
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Does early child care attendance influence children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill development?
Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio-economic and non-native backgrounds in the short-run, it remains unclear whether such positive effects persist. We identify the short- and medium-run effects of early child care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636663
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Do parents work more when children start school? : evidence from the Netherlands
Swart, Lisette; Berge, Wiljan van den; Wiel, Karen van der - 2019
When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for parents who used to spend time taking care of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992361
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The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909167
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Quantiles of the gain distribution of an early childhood intervention
Battistin, Erich; Lamarche, Carlos; Rettore, Enrico - 2020
We offer a new strategy to identify the distribution of treatment effects using data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for low birth-weight infants. We introduce a new policy parameter, QCD, which denotes quantiles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198963