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-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
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This study examines the impact that over-education has on the earnings of private and public sector workers in Trinidad …
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Using a national level sample survey on labour market in India, we analyze the role of education-occupation (mis …-)match (EOM) in explaining within-group dispersion in returns to education. Applying a double sample selection bias correction and … adequately educated counterparts. Second, the inclusion of match status reduces within-education group dispersion in returns. The …
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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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traditional role of education. We first apply a two-way fixed-effects wage estimation, a' la AKM, to the Italian private sector …
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Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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