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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training
Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325670
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Selective schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316915
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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325989
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Do investments in human and physical capital respond differently to financing constraints?
Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Rückert, Désirée; … - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-14
Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether financing constraints affect employers' investments in employee training and physical capital differently. We measure financing constraints with an index that combines survey and balance sheet data. We instrument this index with...
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality : Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
held constant, faster earnings growth for low-entry-earnings immigrants is found empirically even when age and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321433
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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
held constant, faster earnings growth for low-entry-earnings immigrants is found empirically even when age and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414835
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2018
We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We … dispersion of parental education in the school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790876
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Chapter 3. The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 105-182). 2015
This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025480
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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023
Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479670
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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training
Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001471799