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Wage Effects of On-the-Job Training : A Meta-Analysis
Haelermans, Carla - 2011
A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...
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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Interventions that Improve Character and Cognition
Heckman, James J. - 2013
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072173
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The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2006
In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post …-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779229
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Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals
Savelyev, Peter A. - 2017
We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health … subjects, education is linked to better health-related outcomes, in contrast to previous evidence. Conscientiousness, Openness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940846
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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
Murtin, Fabrice - 2009
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765094
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Gender Differences in Education
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2012
This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109428
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978951
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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual,job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previouslyunconsidered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486878
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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions:A Macroeconomic Perspective
Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions foreconomic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome maybe inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the impositionof a child-labor ban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860497
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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth
Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection …
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