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Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money: a life cycle perspective
Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2023
Parental investments significantly impact children's outcomes. Exploiting panel data covering individuals from birth to retirement, we estimate child skill production functions and embed them into an estimated dynastic model in which altruistic mothers and fathers make investments in their...
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Sheepskin Effects in Japan
Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2003
.Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50%of the total returns to schooling.We further find that …
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An Examination of Sheepskin Effects Over Time
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
Previous empirical specifications are not flexible enough to capture the true pattern of sheepskin effects over time. If the quality of the match between the worker and the job contributes to earnings and if higher ability workers more easily reveal their true productivity, sheepskin effects...
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Sheepskin Effects in Japan
Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002
Using data for the 1990?s, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...
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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002
earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds …
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Count your hours: returns to education in Poland
Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009
measure of wages used and the estimation approach applied. Combining information from two different Polish surveys from 2005 … on whether we use net or gross, and monthly or hourly wages, and show how important selection correction is for the … comprehensive analysis of the effects of using different methods and the issue of selection-correction in the estimation of the wage …
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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289876
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323787
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Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
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