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Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings

Antoni, Manfred - 2012

Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...

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Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010

This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...

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Teacher Pay and Student Performance : Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance

Pugatch, Todd - 2014

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...

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Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement

Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew; … - 2022

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multi-dimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....

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Beyond the Average : Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Chakraborty, Tanika - 2014

of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

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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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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

Riddell, W. Craig - 2011

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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Stayers and Returners : Educational Self-Selection Among U.S. Immigrants and Returning Migrants

Aguilar, Arturo A - 2013

This paper empirically examines the educational selectivity of United States immigrants and of those that return to their source country. Data from the 1970 to 2000 U.S. Census and the 2010 American Community Survey are employed. Ten countries are selected for the study based on their historical...

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes : A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006

attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is … in educational attainment, but a lower immigrant rate of return attenuates education's impact. Moreover, observable …

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How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does it Reveal About Education Quality in Their Home Countries?

Alonso-Soto, Daniel - 2017

.Focusing on those who graduated from either secondary or tertiary education in Latin American countries, we present comparative … in different ways. This contradicts the popular belief in policy circles that the education quality of the region has …

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