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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …
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Developing country business cycles: Revisiting the stylised facts
Male, Rachel - 2010
this persistence is somewhat lower than for the developed countries. Furthermore, prices and nominal wages are found to be … use of theoretical models with staggered prices and wages for the modelling of developing country business cycles. …
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Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000
Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...
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Returns to Education in Professional Football
Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2011
After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft. We analyze the starting salaries and signing...
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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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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...
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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the...
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Assessing the returns to education in Georgia
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in...
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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
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The condition of the working-class in England, 1209-2004
Clark, Gregory - 2005
The paper uses building workers' wages 1209-2004, and the skill premium, to consider the causes and consequences of the … Industrial Revolution. Real wages were trendless before 1800, as would be predicted for the Malthusian era. Comparing wages with … the classic Industrial Revolution and even the arrival of modern democracy in 1689. Building wages also conflict with …
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