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Central Exams and Adult Skills: Evidence from PIAAC
Leschnig, Lisa; Schwerdt, Guido; Zigova, Katarina - 2021
Central exams are often hypothesized to favorably affect incentive structures in schools. Indeed, previous research provides vast evidence on the positive effects of central exams on student test scores. But critics warn that these effects may arise through the strategic behavior of students and...
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …
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Is Economics a Good Major for Future Lawyers? Evidence from Earnings Data
Winters, John V. - 2015
The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012
subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884252
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Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC
Hampf, Franziska; Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm such a trade-off over the life-cycle in a …
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Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants
Truong, N. T. Khuong; Sweetman, Arthur - 2018
earnings across immigration classes and categories of Canadians at birth. Adult immigrants, including those assessed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931766
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2013
different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … in the United States. Analysis of the new PIAAC survey of adult skills over the full lifecycle in 22 countries shows that … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329001
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Educational Choices and Earnings: An Empirical Study for Portugal
Modesto, Leonor - 2000
In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese … decision, whereas normally only the first decision is modelled. Correlation between the error terms of the earnings functions … find empirical support for the existence of selectivity bias as the errors of the earnings functions are correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262437
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Educational Choices and Earnings: An Empirical Study for Portugal
Modesto, Leonor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese … decision, whereas normally only the first decision is modelled. Correlation between the error terms of the earnings functions … find empirical support for the existence of selectivity bias as the errors of the earnings functions are correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700874