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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - 2009
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269171
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Life expectancy, labor supply, and long-run growth: Reconciling theory and evidence
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2012
increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311688
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Theoretical and empirical analysis of income inequality and wage differentials: A comparison between the United States and Guatemala
Owings, Ashley - 2010
multiple factors influencing wage rates at the household level including levels of education, household demographics … further develop Guatemala's economy by focusing on increasing gains in education and access of public resources across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335494
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The structure of worker compensation in Brazil, with a comparison to France and the United States
Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Mündler, Marc-Andreas; … - 2006
results to Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and Troske (2001) for French and U.S. manufacturing. Returns to education and experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275905
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Wage structure and unionization in the US construction sector
Bilginsoy, Cihan - 2009
This paper estimates the union effects on the wage gap and dispersion in two pooled samples of construction craftworkers (CPS 1983-88 and 2000-05) using decomposition analysis and kernel density estimation. It shows that despite the decline in the adjusted union wage gap declined over time, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288079
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September 11th and the Earnings of Muslims in Germany: The Moderating Role of Education and Firm Size
Cornelißen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2010
While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600921
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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262498
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325796
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287699
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Wage structure and public sector employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970 - 2002
Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - 2006
Swedish census data and tax records reveal an astonishing wage compression; the Swedish skill premium fell by more than 30 percent between 1970 and 1990 while the U.S. skill premium, after an initial decline in the 1970s, rose by 8 - 10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281859