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earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date … analyze whether the initial assignment to different school tracks has persistent effects on educational attainment and …
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earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date … analyze whether the initial assignment to different school tracks has persistent effects on educational attainment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310771
regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time … ?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by a mis-match between the actual and the years …' education in a certain occupation, there is no additional reward in earnings for natives compared to foreign workers. Immigrants …
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This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on \textit{perceived} signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or...
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This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314876
This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322528
Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore … smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we suppose a higher return to education for smokers who go further on …
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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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Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment (D) and years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these measures is not well understood. We argue that S is negatively correlated with ability among degree-holders because the most...
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