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The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector : Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers

Bau, Natalie - 2017

correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …

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Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling Around the World

Montenegro, Claudio E. - 2017

presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that use the same specification, estimation procedure, and similar data … definition of the dependent variable, the set of control variables, the sample definition, and the estimation method for all …

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More than Schooling : Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill are Available

Gunewardena, Dileni - 2018

This paper uses measures of cognitive and noncognitive skills in an expanded definition of human capital to examine how schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle-income countries. The analysis finds that...

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The Lost Human Capital : Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa

Bold, Tessa - 2019

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...

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Beyond Qualifications : Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Acosta, Pablo - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between individuals? skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia?s urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...

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International Competition, Returns to Skill, and Labor Market Adjustment

Falvey, Rod - 2018

differences in trade exposure across industries in a differences-in-differences estimation. The second is source-weighted real …

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Are There Skills Payoffs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? Empirical Evidence Using Step Data

Valerio, Alexandria - 2017

Most research on the economic payoffs of skills has used individuals' level of schooling attained -- typically years or level of education or training received?as a key proxy for skills. Such research has consistently found that individual returns to schooling are positive and that returns tend...

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