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Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace

Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001

An individual?s human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings … worker?workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own earnings of co-workers? education. Our results, using the 1998 UK … Workplace Employee Relations Survey, show significant effects. Own earnings premia fall slightly, but there is an independent …

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The effect of overskilling dynamics on wages

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Mahuteau, Stéphane; Sloane, Peter J. - 2012

We use a random effects dynamic probit model to estimate the effect of overskilling dynamics on wages. We find that overskilling mismatch is common and more likely among those who have been overskilled in the past. It is also highly persistent, in a manner that is inversely related to...

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Rank, income and income inequality in urban China

Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2008

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …

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The Return to a University Education in Great Britain

O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004

In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, masters degrees and PhDs in Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject groups and more narrowly defined disciplines, distinguishing returns by gender and attempting to control for...

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Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80's and 90's

Andrén, Thomas; Gustafsson, Björn - 2002

the 80s and the beginning of the 90s on its effect on earnings. We separate the analysis between Swedish-born and foreign …

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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses unique information in the WERS and HILDA surveys on reported overskilling in the workplace. To a degree, the overskilling information overcomes the problem of unobserved ability...

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