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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - 2000
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
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Within and between gender disparities in income and education benefits from democracy
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2007
There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefits in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the question of differential welfare impacts, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268537
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Count your hours: returns to education in Poland
Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009
We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the … conclusion. While there are several papers examining the wage equation in Poland, so far none of them has provided a … equation in Poland has not been examined in detail. Annual rates of return to university education for men vary from 6.7% to 9 …
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261574
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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271758
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Verashchagina, Alina; Pastore, Francesco - 2004
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261890
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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...
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An Examination of Sheepskin Effects Over Time
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
Previous empirical specifications are not flexible enough to capture the true pattern of sheepskin effects over time. If the quality of the match between the worker and the job contributes to earnings and if higher ability workers more easily reveal their true productivity, sheepskin effects...
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Measuring the Returns to the GED : Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment
Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John - 2004
In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings of male dropouts, utilizing the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP). These unique data contain...
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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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