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Religious affiliation and participation as determinants of women's educational attainment and wages

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2005

Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...

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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of...

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Maintaining (locus of) control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages

Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia R. - 2010

This paper demonstrates that locus of control, i.e. whether individuals believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, is an important predictor of the decision to obtain higher education. Furthermore, the authors find that...

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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes: Panel evidence on australian university graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2010

The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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Are occupations paid what they are worth? An econometric study of occupational wage inequality and productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …

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Mind the gap: A detailed picture of the immigrant-native earnings gap in the UK using longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - 2011

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...

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Ethnic disparities in the graduate labour market

Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary education system. The study decomposes wage differentials into two components: a component which can be...

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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes: Evidence from siblings

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012

While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called non-cognitive skills in producing labor market outcomes. However, this smaller literature has not typically used causal methods in...

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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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