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schooling in current and lifetime earnings. We use these results to assess the importance of life-cycle bias in earnings … regressions using current earnings as a proxy for lifetime earnings. To account for the endogeneity of schooling, we apply three … returns to schooling, and discuss possible remedies. -- returns to schooling ; life-cycle bias ; lifetime earnings ; current …
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What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How … earnings over the life cycle, following individuals over their working lifespan. To account for endogeneity of schooling, we … of no earnings while in school and exogenous post-schooling employment. …
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What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How … earnings over the life cycle, following individuals over their working lifespan. To account for endogeneity of schooling, we … of no earnings while in school and exogenous post-schooling employment …
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What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How … earnings over the life cycle, following individuals over their working lifespan. To account for endogeneity of schooling, we … of no earnings while in school and exogenous post-schooling employment …
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schooling in current and lifetime earnings. We use these results to assess the importance of life-cycle bias in earnings … regressions using current earnings as a proxy for lifetime earnings. To account for the endogeneity of schooling, we apply three …This paper uses a unique data set with nearly career-long earnings histories to provide evidence on the returns to …
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: A worker enjoys a better post-child earnings trajectory when a larger share of his colleagues take leave because of the … policy. In contrast, we find no direct earnings effect resulting from the worker's own leave when controlling for their …
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This study is one of a series that examines how technology adoption affects the skills of workers. Previous papers in the series have approached this issue in different ways with data from a variety of sources. Using data on the strategies and activities of small and medium-sized firms in both...
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Small firms are often seen to be the engines of growth. There are two main sources of empirical evidence that are adduced to support this conclusion. The first is that job creation has been coming mainly from small firms. The second is that the share of employment accounted for by small firms...
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This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative to that of the United States for the 1994-to-2003 period. Second, it examines the relative importance of differences in capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour...
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Official data from statistical agencies are not always ideal for cross-country comparisons because of differences in data sources and methodology. Analysts who engage in cross-country comparisons need to carefully choose among alternatives and sometimes adapt data especially for their purposes....
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