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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a … larger share of the population involved in human capital investment faces high marginal costs in Italy compared to the …

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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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...

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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...

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Risk attitude and wage growth : replication and reconstruction

Budria, Santi; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2009

risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …

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Human capital investments and family size in Italy: IV estimates using twin births as an instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021

limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …'s educational outcomes - using many waves of the Survey on Household Income and Wealth of the Bank of Italy and focusing on the …

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The effects of occupational knowledge : job information centers, educational choices, and labor market outcomes

Saniter, Nils Peter (contributor); … - 2014

This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...

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Parental background, primary to secondary school transitions, and wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025

We derive wage equations with individual specific coefficients from a structural model of human capital investment over the life cycle. This model allows for interruptions in labour market participation and deals with missing data and attrition problems. We propose a new framework that deals...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025

Fueling debates about the "quality" of immigrants from economically developing countries, empirical studies based on a well-respected methodology conclude that post-1965 immigrant men have low initial earnings and sluggish earnings growth. This methodology is based on flawed assumptions (Duleep,...

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