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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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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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forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …
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This paper examines the relationship between "school quality" and earnings in the United Kingdom. The specific focus is on evaluating the effect that private schooling has on hourly wage rates. It is well known that private (i.e. fee-paying) schools compared to state schools score higher on most...
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Significant numbers of employees work more hours in the workplace than their contract stipulates. Such overtime work can either be paid or unpaid. This research considers overtime working in Germany and the UK and shows that the quantitative significance of both paid and unpaid overtime is...
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This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … conventional overeducation variables can. The paper finds that the prevalence of overskilling decreases with education at least for … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of …
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people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A …
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smaller economic returns, such as education and humanities degrees, especially for men. …
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Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …
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This paper examines the effect of wage variation on individual wages. The results reveal that wage variation by … educational classifications positively affects wages, while the skewness has a negative effect. As has been referred in previous … results show that the impact of wage-variation on wages is not reasonably described by a single parameter for all individuals …
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