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The Effects of For-Profit College Training on Earnings
Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper, I obtain the estimates of the effects of for-profit training and credentials on students' annualized earnings. I differentiate for-profit students by the program level and account for students' self-selection into for-profit sector. I formulate the evaluation as the series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514897
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Technological Change and Immigration Policy
Gomez-Ruano, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
technology changes as it has in the last decades and education has an increasing cost, then it is optimal to allow some low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262751
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Wage inequality and education in Metropolitan Lima 1970-1984
Rodriguez, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
It assesses the impact of the expansion of educational levels on the distribution of wages between 1970 and 1984 in … necessarily contribute to improving the distribution of wages. …
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Structure versus Agency in the Great Deprivation of 21st Century
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely from the criticism of relying on irrational and irresponsible behavior of millions, including that of the most astute financial experts, but are also at a loss to explain why such...
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The skill biased technological change in Turkish manufacturing industries
Eruygur, H. Ozan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The skill biased technological change (SBTC) hypothesis relates earnings inequality to the change in technology with the hypothesis that technology increases the relative demand for skilled labor. In this paper we will investigate the evidence of SBTC hypothesis for two digit level 9 sectors in...
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Changes in the Earnings Distribution in Slovenia during Rapid Growth, 1991-2005
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses the dynamics of income inequality of wage earners in Slovenia from 1991 to 2005, using two different datasets. Both are derived from the personal income tax files. The first is obtained by the Statistical Office of Slovenia, extracting all full-time employees from these files...
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Disparity in the structure of wages in Pakistan
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
. Data for the wages from 9 different sectors which includes Mining and Quarrying, Manufacturing, Electric Gas and Water … compare the wages of the outlined sectors with the wage structure of agriculture sector. The Split technique for means has … been deployed to interrogate the data and the propositions of this research. It is revealed in this paper that wages of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111564
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The distribution of wages and employee incomes in Slovenia, 1991–2009
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbič, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyses the distribution of employee income in Slovenia in the period 1991–2009. The analysis is based on two different datasets, both derived from the personal income tax files. It was shown that income inequality of employees income has somewhat increased in this period, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257886
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An endogenous growth model with quality ladders and consumers’ heterogeneity
Marasco, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This paper develops an endogenous growth model with quality ladders where consumers heterogeneity is assumed and is modelled through non homothetic preferences. We show that in such a model, unlike mainstream quality ladders models, the steady state equilibrium is characterised by a duopoly were...
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Education does not seem to improve health: Evidence from Indonesia
Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
find the longer school year increases educational attainment and wages, but I do not find evidence that education improves …I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy …
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