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The Effect of Changes in the Statutory Minimum Working Age on Educational, Labor and Health Outcomes
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vall-Castello, Judit; del Rey, … - 2015
In this paper we explore the effects of a labor market reform that changed the statutory minimum working age in Spain in 1980. In particular, the reform raised the statutory minimum working age from 14 to 16 years old, while the minimum age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until...
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Money Counts, but So Does Timing: Public Investment and Adult Competencies
Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jo - 2017
Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...
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More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017
little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them … 1972 increase in compulsory schooling on earnings volatility over the life cycle. Our estimates suggest that men exposed to … evidence that education affects earnings volatility of older men. …
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Compulsory Class Attendance versus Autonomy
Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2021
Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education requires a solid grasp of the impact of student autonomy on learning. In this paper, we estimate the effect of an increased autonomy policy for higher-performing students on short- and longer-term school outcomes. We exploit an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658138
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Parental education better helps white than black families escape poverty: National survey of children's health
Assari, Shervin - In: Economies 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14
variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family's ability to scale poverty, defined as the household's income … parents. The dependent variable was household poverty status (income-to-needs ratio). Race was the focal moderator. Linear … household was associated with lower risk of poverty. Race, however, interacted with parental education attainment on household-income …
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Social inequalities in Europe: Facing the challenge
Allmendinger, Jutta; von den Driesch, Ellen - 2014
Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …
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Impact of the National Professional Qualification Program (PNQ) on Income: An Econometric Analysis in Piracicaba/SP-Brazil
Ferraz, Diogo; Ribeiro de Oliveira, Fabíola Cristina - In: Pesquisa & Debate 28 (2018) 2, pp. 105-123
Piracicaba/Sao Paulo - Brazil. It analyzed the impact of PNQ on the income of workers. The Theory of Human Capital is presented … as a suitable theoretical basis. We used econometric method "diffs-in-diffs", which compares the income of a group of … skilled workers with others who did not attend the program. It proved to be rise in income and increased formalization of …
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The Impact of the War on Human Capital and Productivity in Ukraine
Égert, Balázs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2023
In addition to the humanitarian suffering and huge immediate economic costs, the war in Ukraine will have long-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new stock measure of human capital combining the quality...
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A second chance at education for early school leavers
Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-Ping - 2012
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline the importance of programs that encourage early school leavers to return to post-school...
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Real wage inequality
Moretti, Enrico - 2008
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...
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