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Returns to private education in Peru
Calónico, Sebastián; Ñopo, Hugo - 2007
The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment...
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A distributional framework for matched employer employee data
Bonhomme, Stéphane; Lamadon, Thibaut; Manresa, Elena - 2017
effect on mobility, and that, beyond their dependence on the current firm, earnings after a job move also depend on the past …
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The gender gap in early career wage growth: The role of children, job mobility and occupational mobility
Reshid, Abdulaziz Abrar - 2017
their female counterparts. This paper investigates the role of job mobility and upward occupational mobility in explaining … the gender gap in early career wage growth. The analysis reveals that although job mobility and upward occupational … gender differences in observed individual and job characteristics, as well as unobserved individual specific heterogeneity …
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Measuring labor market segmentation from incomplete data
Wiener, Noe - 2018
This paper proposes a measure of the intensity of competition in labor markets on the basis of limited data. Large-scale socioeconomic surveys often lack detailed information on competitive behavior. It is particularly difficult to determine whether a worker moves between the different segments...
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Who has the time? Community college students' time-use response to financial incentives
Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena; McFarland, Amanda - 2020
We evaluate the effect of performance-based scholarship programs for postsecondary students on student time use and effort and whether these effects are different for students we hypothesize may be more or less responsive to incentives. To do so, we administered a time-use survey as part of a...
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Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Schneider, Frédéric - 2019
cooperatively and reliably in the workplace. We conjecture that, holding all else equal, frequent job changes can indicate poor work … field experiment that varies the frequency of job changes in applicants' resumes and find that those with fewer job changes … labor market data. Our work highlights the potential importance of job history as a signal of work attitude in labor markets …
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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - 2013
We demonstrate a striking but previously unnoticed relationship between city size and the black-white wage gap, with the gap increasing by 2.5% for every million-person increase in urban population. We then look within cities and document that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the...
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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014
A pervasive, yet little acknowledged feature of international migration to developed countries is that newly arriving immigrants are increasingly highly skilled since the 1980s. This paper analyses the determinants of changes in the skill composition of immigrants using a framework suggested by...
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Math matters: Education choices and wage inequality
Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014
SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners'...
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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey: a quantile regression analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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