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Does education reduce wage inequality? : Quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001471780
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Do we need computer skills to use a computer? : Evidence from Britain
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001744025
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Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance : does schooling provide earnings insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383274
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The returns to pencil use revisited
Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2007
The increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades. While the majority of workers now spend a substantial fraction of their working day with a computer, research on the wage effect of computer use effectively came to a halt after DiNardo and...
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Are computer skills the new basic skills? : The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001749995
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch-Röcker, Alexandra; Wiederhold, … - 2016
19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the idea that Internet access is important in the formation of ICT … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across … for a one-standard-deviation increase in ICT skills in the international analysis and are almost twice as large in Germany …
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A numerical simulation of educational mismatch in the Italian labor market
Roson, Roberto; Ghignoni, Emanuela - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382138
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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high - at 11.4 and 8% - when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...
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