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Distribution of Demand for School Quality: Evidence from Quantile Regression
Wada, Roy; Herbert, Zahirovic-Herbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Our results show that high-income families place significantly higher value on academic achievement than low-income families. High-income families are also more likely to penalize house price for non-desirable non-academic school quality. This paper uses quantile regression to examine the...
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Моделиране на възвращаемостта от образование и реализация на притежателите на докторски степени на пазара на труда в България...
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Panayotova, Nataliya; Ganev, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this study we present the theoretical framework of the so called Mincerian equations used for modelling returns to education. Then, we construct a conceptual framework which allows us to answer the question “What happens to doctoral degree holders in the labour market?”. We analyse data...
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Credit Constraints in Higher Education in a Context of Unobserved Heterogeneity
Villena, Mauricio; Sanchez, Rafael; Rojas, Eugenio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article tests the existence of credit constraints on higher education access by estimating actual marginal returns in the context of unobserved heterogeneity. We estimate higher education returns for those who attend to it and compare them with those of individuals who are at the margin of...
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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...
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Connect: Children with School and Workers with Wages in Bagladesh
PAUNIĆ, ALIDA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Recent attempts of wage rise , problems of security at work place as well as many findings about child labor in Bangladesh were primary cause of writing this paper. But problems have deep roots: from world separation of capital and labor, profit increasing scenarios with labor inputs, human...
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"The Impact of Working while Enrolled in College on Wages"
Nelson, Wade; Jr, Owen Wade Nelson - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
-working students to seek employment. Using NLSY97 data, this paper finds that working while enrolled in college decreases the wages one …
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Skill Biased Technical Change: Wage Effects from a Panel of Occupational Task Measures
Ross, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262871
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Regional Disparities in Wage Employment Dynamics: A Decade of Economic Reforms in India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries both from a national and a regional perspective. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period with special emphasis on the regional dimension. The workforce...
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Real Wages, Wage Inequality and the Regional Cost-of-living in the UK
Cinzia, Rienzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
) and overestimates the cost-of-living for “cheaper” regions (Northern Ireland, Scotland). When deflating hourly wages by … the regional RPI, the average level of wages is lower from 8% to 11% an hour for all workers in London and the South East …% in levels when deflating wages by the real regional RPI. …
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Aspecte teoretice ale pieței muncii
Juravle, Daniel; DD - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The subject of this paper consist in theoretical study on the labor market. In view to acomplish the mentioned scientific endeavour this original approach is focused on identifying and understanding the mechansim that determine or facilitate the labor market facts. For this purpose is laid...
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