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The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the … early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method … college quality. Results show that graduates in economics and law earn more than they would if they had chosen some other …
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that both the mincerian human capital model and Thurow's job competition model could be rejected. -- job-education matching …
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This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
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-random student-teacher matching is present in these countries, as well, similar to the US, and this can lead to biased estimates of …
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In this study standard Mincer earnings equations are estimated using both ordinary least squares (OLS) and quantile regression in order to give a comprehensive picture of the returns to education in Germany and Hungary for the year 2000. To make the cross-country comparison of the returns to...
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By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494684
This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494701
The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the … early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method … college quality. Results show that graduates in economics and law earn more than they would if they had chosen some other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494702
-random student-teacher matching is present in these countries, as well, similar to the US, and this can lead to biased estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494474
Built upon data from 11 subsequent waves of yearly wage surveys carried out by the National Labour Center in Hungary from 1992 to 2003, the paper examines, with the use of elementary statistical tools, whether or not earnings fluctuations differed in size among groups of employees with different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774181