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Causes of changing earnings inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
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Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004
We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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The Return to a University Education in Great Britain
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004
charging students for the costs of their education. …
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The Changing Wage Return to an Undergraduate Education
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2005
Between 1990/91 and 2000/01 the number of male undergraduates in Britain increased by over one-third while the number of female undergraduates has increased nearly twofold. Given this substantial increase in supply we would expect some impact on the wage premium for recent graduates unless...
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Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262674
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Leadership Skills and Wages
Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers? ?leadership? skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262770
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Graduate employment in the UK: an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model
Grazier, Suzanne; O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2008
supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268793
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Explaining the labour market outcomes of first, second and third generation immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with … high school education and lower do not earn significantly less than the equally educated third generation. However, the … second generation with at least postsecondary education experience a wage deficit to the third generation. I explain the well …
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Religious affiliation and participation as determinants of women's educational attainment and wages
Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2005
childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The … religious affiliation on wages largely mirrors its influence on educational attainment, although evidence of additional effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275045
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275777