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Effects of skills training on employment and livelihood outcomes : a randomized controlled trial with young women in Ghana

Frohnweiler, Sarah; Adongo, Charles A.; Beber, Bernd; … - 2024

(non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive … (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but it (i) induced occupational sorting, with treated individuals more …-Practice-Ausbildungsprogramms auf Beschäftigung und Lebensbedingungen in Ghana. Insgesamt hatte das Programm keine Auswirkungen auf die zentralen …

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Disadvantages of linguistic origin : evidence from immigrant literacy scores

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2013

This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...

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Mental health and labour supply : evidence from Mexico‘s ongoing violent conflicts

Michaelsen, Maren Marie - 2012

income through less work which in turn has consequences for Mexico‘s social development and economic growth. -- Mental health … mentaler Gesundheit leidet, sondern auch indirekt durch geringeres Einkommen, das aufgrund von weniger Arbeit erzielt wird …

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Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda

Bensch, Gunther; Kluve, Jochen; Peters, Jörg - 2011

income and children's home studying become insignificant if regional differences are accounted for. -- Rural electrification …

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Moderation in higher-order earnings risk? : evidence from German cohorts

Isaak, Niklas; Jessen, Robin - 2024

Women born later experience greater earnings growth volatility at given ages than the next older cohort. This alone would imply a welfare loss due to increased earnings risk. However, using German registry data for the years 2001-2016, we document a moderation in higher-order earnings risk: Both...

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What makes you "super-rich"? : new evidence from an analysis of football players' earnings

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco; Raitano, Michele - 2017

This article investigates the influence of performance, popularity and power on "superearnings" using a unique panel dataset of Italian football players built on various sources of data. Using OLS, Panel and Unconditional Quantile regression techniques, we find that detailed measures of these...

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Hours risk, wage risk, and life-cycle labor supply

Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2018

our model with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) shows that both permanent wage and hours shocks play an important … Income Dynamics (PSID) für die USA zeigen, dass sowohl Lohn- als auch Stundenshocks eine wichtige Rolle für die Erklärung der …

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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market

Kleibrink, Jan - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Educational mismatch has been discussed extensively, mostly by applying OLS wage regressions which are prone to an unobserved heterogeneity bias. This problem is...

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The hidden increase in wage inequality : skill-biased and ability-biased technology change

Michaelsen, Maren Marie - 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...

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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood

Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019

starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math and language test scores for adults in Germany, the identification …

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