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The Effects of Compulsory Military Service Exemption on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
reduction in earnings is likely due to the reduction in education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145371
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The Importance of Cognitive Abilities at Primary School for Educational and Occupational Success in the Life Course of a Dutch Generation, born around 1940.
Dronkers, J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This paper gives empirical evidence of the role of cognitive ability in social stratification by analyzing a Dutch longitudinal data set (the so-called Noord-Brabant cohort), as a contribution to the debates around The Bell Curve. Differences in early cognitive ability influence educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552810
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The Effects of School Term Length on Education and Earnings: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111037
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Maroc éducation et emploi une analyse théorique
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we consider a theoritical model helping to provide a new insights into the functioning of moroccan labor market. The model examines the impact of imperfect competition among firms with access to specific technologies on the emergence of the new modern economy.The The emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114041
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An investigation into the positive effect of an educated wife on her husband’s earnings: the case of Japan in the period between 2000 and 2003.
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … suggestive evidence that educated wives increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025312
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Skill bias, age and organizational change
O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109432
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Literacy and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap
Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Being able to read and write is one of the most important skills in modern economies. Literacy frequently is a prerequisite for employment and its relevance for productivity and wages is magnified by the fact that it is only through literacy that many other skills become usable. More so than for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109471
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The Impact of Work-Related Training on Employee Earnings: Evidence from Great Britain.
Panos, Sousounis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-related training on earnings levels. Different measures for general and specific training are constructed from available information …. The analysis diverges from the standard fixed effects framework for earnings determination modelling and presents evidence … effects formulation for the earnings equation suggested by Nijman and Verbeek (1992) for controlling for attrition bias in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623408
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Subject of degree and the gender wage gap: Evidence from Italy
Noe', Chiara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by men and women contribute to the gender pay gap in Italy. Using micro-data from the “Survey of Household Income and Wealth” collected by Bank of Italy (1995-2006), we studied the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261111
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Skill mismatches and wages among European university graduates
Bárcena-Martín, Elena; Budría, Santiago; Moro-Egido, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
university graduates. The results show that the mismatched earn on average 11.7% less than their well-matched counterparts. This … effect, however, cannot be regarded as constant across the conditional earnings distribution: workers with lower unobserved … earnings capacity tend to be exposed to greater wage loses when they end up in mismatched jobs. …
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