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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...

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Risk attitude and wage growth: replication and reconstruction

Budría, Santiago; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; … - 2009

We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed support for the earlier results. We present and estimate a...

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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 2015

paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2015

-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …

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Young FSU Migrants in Germany: Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …

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Gender differences in competitiveness

Lackner, Mario - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Differences in labor market outcomes for women and men are highly persistent. Apart from discrimination, one frequently mentioned explanation could be differences in the attitude towards competition for both genders. Abundant empirical evidence indicates that multiple influences shape attitudes...

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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden : What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Lindahl, Mikael; Björklund, Anders; Plug, Erik - 2004

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic...

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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality

Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...

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The origins of intergenerational associations: lessons from Swedish adoption data

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2005

We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...

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