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El presente trabajo pretende desagregar el capital humano en sus dos componentes principales: la educación formal en la escuela y la formación en el trabajo. Analizando el comportamiento de ambas formas de acumulación de capital humano por separado, se pretende conseguir un mejor conocimiento...
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Se utilizan cortes transversales y cohortes sintéticas para estimar las tasas de retorno a la educación en Chile. Para corte transversal se usa las CASEN de los años 1990 a 2006. Para cohortes sintéticas, las Encuestas de Ocupación del gran Santiago para los años 1957 a 2000 y la encuesta...
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This work studies the relationship between education and labor market performance, first by making a review of the literature on the subject, and then by examining certain stylized facts. For the empirical evaluation, education is analysed through the educational attainment reached by economic...
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This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that the literature reports in this type of estimations is tried to be solved using the control function method. Through this method some variables relevant to wage determination...
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This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that the literature reports in this type of estimations is tried to be solved using the control function method. Through this method some variables relevant to wage determination...
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This paper estimates the returns to education in Bogotá in 1997 and 2003 by means of Heckman’s maximum likelihood methodology. The analytical framework used is Human Capital Theory. Instead of using the ‘Encuesta Nacional de Hogares’ (National Household Survey), as does current...
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This research presents empirical evidence of the mexican labor market earnings for males and females, pooling together … and Lemiux (1996). The semi-parametric specification allows visualizing the earnings distribution according to the …
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El objetivo de este trabajo es ampliar la evidencia sobre el efecto de la educación en la salud y los salarios. Se estima un índice sintético del estado de salud para paliar el problema de subjetividad de los indicadores de autoevaluación. Para tener en cuenta la endogeneidad entre los...
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The decisions taken by young Colombians in their early years as potentiallyindependent individuals (25 to 35 years of age) have changedduring the last decades. A good part of these decisions have to do withattending college or not. The results show that young people today preferconjugal...
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A pesar de su amplio uso en los trabajos aplicados sobre rendimientos de la educación, este artículo demuestra que la «función minceriana estándar» no arroja una medida exacta del valor económico de la Educación Superior si ésta es una variable endógena. El problema de la endogeneidad...
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