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Financing Apprenticeship Training : Evidence from Germany
Harhoff, Dietmar; Kane, Thomas J. - 2021
Much of the current discussion promoting apprenticeship programs in the U.S. proceeds as if it is simply a matter of … system of apprenticeship training. Many German firms face large net costs of apprenticeship training. Yet they continue to …
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The Power of TV : Cable Television and Women's Status in India
Oster, Emily F. - 2008
Cable and satellite television have grown rapidly throughout the developing world. The availability of cable and satellite television exposes viewers to new information about the outside world, which may affect individual attitudes and behaviors. This paper explores the effect of the...
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Inequality at Birth : Some Causes and Consequences
Currie, Janet - 2011
Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and participation in social programs. In turn, endowments at birth are predictive of adult outcomes, and of the outcomes of future generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is...
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Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and Family Background
Black, Sandra E.; Sufi, Amir - 2021
While trends in college enrollment for blacks and whites have been the subject of study for a number of years, little attention has been paid to the variation in college enrollment by socioeconomic status (SES). It is well documented that, controlling for family background, blacks are more...
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
emphasizing apprenticeship programs. Results are robust to accounting for ability patterns and to propensity-score matching …
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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program : Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021
This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...
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Determinants of Young Male Schooling and Training Choices
Cameron, Stephen V.; Heckman, James J. - 2021
This paper examines the determinants of GED acquisition. high school graduation and postsecondary training and schooling choices. Economic factors determining dropping out are considered. The determinants of high school certification by exam are fundamentally different from the determinants of...
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS … selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. In order to overcome the resulting ability bias we estimate returns … to apprenticeship training for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot …
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The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2022
In the standard model of human capital with perfect labor markets general training. When labor market frictions compress the structure of wages in the general skills of their employees. The reason is that the distortion in the wage structure" turn technologically' general skills into specific'...
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