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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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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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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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of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …
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This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly … uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns to education for these workers, which is drastically masked by the … workers' wages. Our stochastic dominance tests, however, show that the returns to education for workers with disabilities, as …
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nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age – to our knowledge for the first time. The highly educated went …
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In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to …
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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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at the lower end of the wage distribution it increased at the top end of wage distribution. Education contributed to …
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