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The evolution of the earnings distribution in Italy between 1986 and 2004: evidence from the WHIP database
Alfonso, Rosolia - In: Politica economica - Journal of Economic Policy (PEJEP) (2010) 2, pp. 179-202
Over the past 20 years the Italian labour market has experienced several institutional changes and socio-demographic developments. This paper explores how such changes have affected the distribution of private not agricultural earnings using longitudinal administrative records collected in the...
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Returns to Human Capital and Investment in New Technology
Luzio, Rodolfo; Dunaway, Steven Vincent; Kaufman, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper presents a simple framework that illustrates the link between skill-based wage differentiation and human capital acquisition given skill-biased technical progress. The analysis points to the economic costs resulting from labor market and income redistribution policies that prevent the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264106
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The Effectiveness of Education and Health Spending among Brazilian Municipalities
Mello, Luiz de; Pisu, Mauro - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
municipalities to estimate the impact of government spending on education and health outcomes. We deal with the multi … of education outcomes, but this is not the case for health, and that spending on non-education programmes are also at … least as important. In addition, there appears to be scope for gains in economies of scale in the provision of education and …
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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are they Compatible? Part 7. The Drivers of Labour Earnings Inequality – An Analysis Based on Conditional and Unconditional Quantile Regres...
Fournier, Jean-Marc; Koske, Isabell - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
impact on overall earnings inequality. As for tertiary education, the impact remains ambiguous as there are several …
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The quality–quantity trade-off: evidence from the relaxation of China’s one-child policy
Liu, Haoming - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 2, pp. 565-602
This paper uses the exogenous variation in fertility introduced by China’s family planning policies to identify the impact of child quantity on child quality. We find that the number of children has a significant negative effect on child height, which supports the quality–quantity trade-off...
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How wide is the gap? An investigation of gender wage differences using quantile regression
Garcia, Jaume; Hernández, Pedro J.; Nicolás, Ángel López - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
In this paper we examine the determinants of wages and decompose the observed differences across genders into the "explained by different characteristics" and "explained by different returns components" using a sample of Spanish workers. Apart from the conditional expectation of wages, we...
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Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark - In: Journal of Population Economics 23 (2010) 1, pp. 251-272
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Are there Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …
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Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L; Bryan, Mark L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124003
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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL TRAINING AND EARNINGS PREMIUMS IN TAIWAN
Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph; Wherry, … - In: Feminist Economics 12 (2006) 4, pp. 527-560
of policy dialogues. Taiwan has gone beyond most countries in promoting vocational education and setting strict quotas … for schooling. Although the education plans do not have separate targets for men and women, they have gendered outcomes … earnings premium. Policy reforms based on relaxing education quotas and enforcing equal opportunity legislation would provide …
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