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Life expectancy and parental education
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and their life expectancy. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival...
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The effects of education on health : an intergenerational perspective
Huebener, Mathias - 2018
This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II, which was implemented across federal states at different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906241
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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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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more...
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How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? : what does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
Alonso Soto, Daniel; Ñopo, Hugo - 2017
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732083
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
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Persistence bias and the wage-schooling model
Andini, Corrado - 2013
problematic for the estimation of the schooling coefficient even if individual unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity are taken … into account. Overall, the findings support the dynamic approach to the estimation of wage-schooling models recently … suggested by Andini (2012; 2013). -- schooling ; wages ; dynamic panel-data models …
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629024
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A panel study of immigrants' overeducation and earnings in Australia
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2017
The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776014
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Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, hiring channels, and wages in Bangladesh
Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R. - 2018
the interplay between skills and hiring channels in determining wages. While cognitive skills (literacy, a learning … outcome) affect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage return. Non … returns to conscientiousness and hostile attribution bias. Those hired through networks enjoy higher wages for higher levels …
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