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The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes
Saniter, Nils; Siedler, Thomas - 2014
This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...
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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2003
This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941057
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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages
Dustmann, Christian - 2001
inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children?s education translates into earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262574
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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Comment
Roodman, David - 2023
Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion in Indonesia to estimate the returns to schooling. Under the study's difference-in-differences (DID) design, two patterns in the data-shallower pay scales for younger workers and negative selection in treatment-can violate the parallel trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013489378
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Education policies and practices: What have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012
This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284013
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Einkommen in der Berliner Kreativbranche: angestellte Künstler verdienen am besten
Mundelius, Marco - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 9, pp. 138-143
Die mehr als 20 000 Künstler in Berlin und die knapp 80 000 Erwerbstätigen in anderen "kreativen" Berufen (zum Beispiel Architekten, Software- Entwickler, Werbefachleute) erwirtschafteten im Jahr 2006 zusammen ein Einkommen von 2,1 Milliarden Euro. Sie trugen damit ein Zehntel zur gesamten...
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The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2004
When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased productivity, output per worker increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increase only gradually if the costs continue to fall. As a result, workers in computer-adopting labor market groups experience an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261864
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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262210
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Working hours in Japan: who is time-privileged?
Fuess, Scott M. - 2006
In the U.S. the relationship between hours worked and employee earnings has been reversed. Whereas the highest earners used to work the shortest hours, now they work the longest hours. This study examines whether such a reversal has occurred elsewhere, namely, Japan. Since the early 1990s the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267829
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Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2003
Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we examine the returns to computer skills in Britain. Many researchers, using information on computer use, have concluded that wage differentials between computer users and non-users might, among others, be due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277176