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selection and endogeneity of education in the earnings function. The results shed light on heterogeneity in the returns to … to join the informal sector. To measure the specific impact of schooling on earnings, we address issues related to sample … as an important determinant of earnings. …
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Morocco. -- earnings functions ; informal training ; learning-by-watching ; learning-by-doing ; returns to tenure ; Morocco …
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As an alternative to traditional academic schooling, vocational schooling in South Africa may serve as a safety valve for students encountering difficulty in the transition from school to work. Yet if ineffective, vocational schooling could also be a sinkhole, offering little chance for success...
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This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in...
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This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … differentials in the lower-wage origin relative to the higher-wage destination. Favorable selectivity for labor market success can …
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This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...
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who did not have access to these facilities. However, we find no effects on individuals' earnings in their first job or …
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market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …
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The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …
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/or for the endogeneity of educational choices by using instrumental variables significantly increases the returns to …
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