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A second chance? : labor market returns to adult education using school reforms

Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020

fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap …

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Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methjods and results from the NCDS

Blundell, Richard W.; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara - 2003

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on … find an average return of 27% for those completing higher education versus anything less. Compared to stopping at 16 … without qualifications, we find an average return to O-levels of 18%, to A-levels of 24% and to higher education of 48%. …

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024

-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in …

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023

We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers with few formal educational qualifications. We show that...

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Children, time allocation and consumption insurance

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2017

We consider the life cycle choices of a household deciding how much to consume and how to allocate spouses time to work, leisure, and childcare. In an environment with uncertainty, the allocation of goods and time over the life cycle also serves the purpose of smoothing marginal utility in...

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Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

Blundell, Richard W.; Lopez, Hugo; Ziliak, James P. - 2023

, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …- and between-education groups and gender. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor …

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Inequality and the Covid crisis in the United Kingdom

Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Mónica Costa; Cribb, Jonathan - 2022

We review the effects on the Covid-19 pandemic on inequalities in education, the labour market, household living …

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Consumption inequality and partial insurance

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2004

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent...

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Changes in the distribution of male and female wages accounting for employment composition using bounds

Blundell, Richard W.; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, Hidehiko; … - 2004

assumptions we find convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in the return to education …

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