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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul; Huang, Qiuqiong; Park, Albert - 2017
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … schooling, there is no strong evidence that skills measured in childhood predict wages in the early years of labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653294
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307361
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420726
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Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
schooling between 1997 and 1999). Surprisingly, I find no significant differences between OLS and IV estimates of returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822041
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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany
Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
both in terms of schooling degree and probability of having to repeat a grade. These findings are likely driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822052
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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James; Navarro, Salvador - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications for using measured variability to price risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822068
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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades
Riphahn, Regina Therese; Heineck, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822267
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A Note on Measures of Human Capital for Immigrants: Examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper we examine whether where one acquires their human capital matters in earnings regressions. We focus on a nationally-representative US data set and find that there is little difference between a measure of total years of education and measures for US and foreign-based years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822313
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Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions
Belzil, Christian; Leonardi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel … Arrow-Pratt degree of absolute risk aversion) is posterior to schooling decisions, it depends on current wealth realizations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822705
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and pre-immigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822761