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Returns to Education in Europe – Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey
Middendorf, Torge - 2008
We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264735
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Time is Money – The Influence of Parenthood Timing on Wages
Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012
This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287368
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The Hidden Increase in Wage Inequality: Skill-biased and Ability-biased Technological Change
Michaelsen, Maren M. - 2011
This study provides strong evidence for an increase in wage inequality induced by skillbiased technological change in the UK manufacturing industry between 1991 and 2006. Using individual level data from the BHPS and industry level data from the OECD, wage regressions are estimated which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283755
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The Hidden Increase in Wage Inequality: Skill-biased and Ability-biased Technological Change
Michaelsen, Maren M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
This study provides strong evidence for an increase in wage inequality induced by skillbiased technological change in the UK manufacturing industry between 1991 and 2006. Using individual level data from the BHPS and industry level data from the OECD, wage regressions are estimated which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246524
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Returns to Education in Europe – Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey
Middendorf, Torge - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561996
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany – Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
on earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331343
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany – Heterogeneous Eff ects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
on earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705763
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269990
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The long-term effects of long terms: Compulsory schooling reforms in Sweden
Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2017
increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by …We evaluate the impact on earnings, pensions, and further labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780632
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger … classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school … of the long-term causal effects exploits state and year variation in school entry regulations. The results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971674