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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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education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … to education by 0.005 percentage points. This implies that higher skilled employees are better sheltered from labour … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …
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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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earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds …Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In …
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wages in start‐ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the direction of wage differentials between spin‐offs and non … higher wages to employees with linkages to the university sector – either as university graduates or as student workers. …
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Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …
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correlation between continuing vocational training and wages are examined. Results are compared in order to analyse in how far …
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employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …
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comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive … effect only translates into labor income via the channel of education. Factor structure models are implemented on an …. -- Locus of control ; wages ; latent factor model ; data set combination …
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-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …
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