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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment …, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that … positive correlations between education and labour force transitions are likely to be confounded by the endogeneity of …
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qualifications drive most - but not all - of the returns to education …
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come from less-educated families (in terms of their parents' education), the estimates of the return to college selectivity …
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to college education. We argue that Duncan and Hoffman's augmented wage equation the workhorse model in the overeducation … best loosely related to this original motivation. We discuss measurement and estimation issues and give an overview of the …
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Understanding the causal impacts of taking youth on the margins of risk into foster care is an element of the evidence-base on which policy development for this crucial function of government relies. Yet, there is little research looking at these causal impacts; neither is there much empirical...
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education. Furthermore, the authors find that premarket locus of control, defined as locus of control measured at the time of … education decisions. In light of the existing literature, which finds mostly positive effects of contemporaneous locus of … locus of control, influence the cost of education but not outcomes directly, these individual characteristics may keep …
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This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...
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In this paper, we estimate returns to classroom and on-the-job firm-sponsored training in terms of value-added per worker using longitudinal linked employee-employer Canadian data from 1999 to 2006. We estimate a standard production function controlling for endogenous training decisions because...
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This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK …
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This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the … from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the … education …
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