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Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fernández, Raquel; Pagés, Carmen; Székely, Miguel; … - 2023

interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …

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Earnings prospects for people with migration background in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher (contributor); … - 2007

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...

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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013

The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for … reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation … transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation …

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Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002 - Revised September 2002

the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …

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Educational attaintment and returns to education in Germany : an analysis by subject of degree, gender and region

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2005

This paper presents evidence on the development of educational attainment and its returns on the labor market in Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data in addition to GSOEP data, which allows estimating returns...

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Aggregate unemployment decreases individual returns to education

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Heterogeneous returns to training an analysis with German data using local instrumental variables

Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor); Maier, Michael (contributor) - 2006

Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...

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A classical model of education, growth and distribution

Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income …

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What wages do people expect for vocational and academic education backgrounds in Switzerland?

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra - 2022

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