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Changing returns to education during a boom? The case of Ireland
McGuinness, Seamus; McGinnity, Frances; O'Connell, Philip - 2008
throughout the period, partly explained by a rapid growth in demand for unskilled labour, which helped maintain low-skilled wages …-2001. We argue that for women, low-skilled wages were kept up by the introduction of the minimum wage in 2000, and high skilled … wages fell due to a rapid rise in the supply of highly qualified women. The Irish example shows that skill-biased technical …
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Works councils, wages, and job satisfaction
Grund, Christian; Schmitt, Andreas - 2011
We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274627
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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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Substance use and earnings : the case of smokers in Germany
Schwarze, Johannes; Heineck, Guido - 2003
This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and longitudinal models are estimated separately for males and females. Results for the cross-sectional models confirm prior analyses inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513150
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513221
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267473