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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

allowing us measuring among others the quality of education from high school. This wealth of information is a condition to … quality of education also correlates to the educational mismatch. We find a nonconditional wage penalty associated to …

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What explains Vietnam's exceptional performance in education relative to other countries? : analysis of the 2012 and 2015 PISA data

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Khoa Vu; Lee, Jongwook - 2021

Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing countries, and even ahead of wealthier countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., on the 2012 and 2015 PISA assessments. We provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong...

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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

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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The impact of compulsory education on employment and earnings in a transition economy

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …

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Field-of-study homogamy

Bičáková, Alena; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2017

This paper reports evidence on the strong tendency of the college educated to match with partners who graduated in the same field of study - a dimension of assortative matching that has been overlooked thus far. We employ Labor Force Survey data covering most EU countries to measure the extent...

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The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education : a regression discontinuity analysis

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kucukbayrak, Muserref; Tumen, Semih - 2021

youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...

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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lowerreturns,...

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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments

Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...

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