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Are Austrian returns to education falling over time?

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 1999

In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...

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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt : evidence from quantile regression on panel data

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2018

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...

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The missing type : where are the inequality averse (students)?

Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2024

The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences - or lack thereof - is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in...

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Expertise and independence on governing boards : evidence from school districts

Shi, Ying; Singleton, John D. - 2019

In this paper, we study the roles of expertise and independence on governing boards in the context of education. In … independence of educators may be distorted by interest groups. The key empirical challenge is that school board composition is … accompanying effects on student test scores. We interpret these findings as consistent with educators on school boards shifting …

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Estimating the effect of unemployment insurance compensation on the labor market histories of displaced workers

Jurajda, Štěpán - 2001

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...

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The causal effect of deficiency at English on female immigrants' labor market outcomes in the UK

Miranda, Alfonso; Zhu, Yu - 2013

We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...

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Succeeding in innovation : key insights on the role of R&D and technological acquisition drawn from company data

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new product and/or process innovations. In doing so, this analysis departs from the standard approach which puts forward a homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by...

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The effect of sexual activity on wages

Drydakis, Nick - 2013

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this research is that sexual activity, like health indicators and...

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Wage decompositions using panel data sample selection correction

Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Choe, Chung - 2016

This paper analyzes wage decomposition methodology in the context of panel data sample selection embedded in a correlated random effects setting. Identification issues unique to panel data are examined for their implications for wage decompositions. As an empirical example, we apply our...

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The evolution of the early career gender wage gap

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

In this paper we investigate when the male-female wage differential arises: Does it evolve over the early career or does it exist right from entry into first employment onwards? For the analysis we use new administrative longitudinal data and focus on the early careers of skilled workers in...

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