Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,615
Cover Image
Does public education expansion lead to trickle-down growth?
Böhm, Sebastian; Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - 2014
The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415518
Cover Image
Human capital accumulation, education and earnings inequality
Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402346
Cover Image
Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411235
Cover Image
Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2017
Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625378
Cover Image
The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325989
Cover Image
Low-skilled immigration and the expansion of private schools
Dottori, Davide (contributor); Shen, I-ling (contributor) - 2009
This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796287
Cover Image
Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system
Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426684
Cover Image
Private school quality in Italy
Bertola, Giuseppe (contributor);  … - 2007
We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students differ not only in terms of their families' ability to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666462
Cover Image
Intergenerational earnings mobility and preferences for redistribution
Siedler, Thomas; Sonnenberg, Bettina - 2012
individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the … taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate or too low - are used to elicit attitudes toward redistribution … years. The results reveal that intergenerational mobility is significantly related to preferences for redistribution. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665011
Cover Image
Education, redistributive taxation and confidence
Konrad, Kai A. (contributor); Spadaro, Amedeo (contributor) - 2005
redistribution among young individuals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002592002