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International Trade and the Skill Structure of Wages and Employment in West Germany / Außenhandel und die Qualifikationsstruktur von Löhnen und Beschäftigung in Westdeutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 1-2, pp. 67-89

Summary Building on a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson framework with factor price rigidities, this paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between trade, technical progress, and the labor market in West Germany for the period from 1970 until 1990. The analysis builds on relative...

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Was fehlt in der EVS?. Eine Verteilungsanalyse hoher Einkommen mit der verknüpften Einkommensteuerstatistik für Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte / What is Missing in the EVS?. A Distributional Analysis of High Income With the Merged Income Tax Statistic for Self-Employed and Employees

Merz, Joachim - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 223 (2003) 1, pp. 58-90

Zusammenfassung Prominente Mikrodatenbasis für die Analyse von Einkommen und ihrer Verteilung ist die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS). Allerdings sind hohe Einkommen über der „Abschneidegrenze" von 35 000 DM Haushaltsnettoeinkommen pro Monat nicht vorhanden. In dieser Studie wird...

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The rise of middle class in rural China

Yuan, Zhang; Wan, Guanghua; Khor, Niny - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 36-51

rural China, its trend and geographical distribution. Determinants or drivers of changes in the size of middle class are … middle class in rural China. Findings – Major findings include: in 2007, as many as 398 million rural residents or almost 54 … percent of China's rural population belonged to the middle class; the size estimate of China's rural middle class based on …

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Does College Still Pay?

Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - In: The Economists' Voice 2 (2005) 4

Since the mid-1990s college tuition costs have risen quickly while the rate of increase in the value of education has slowed considerably. Cecilia Rouse and Lisa Barrow explore the reasons and ask if college remains a good investment.

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Causal Returns to Education : A Survey on Empirical Evidence for Germany

Flossmann, Anton L.; Pohlmeier, Winfried - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 226 (2006) 1, pp. 6-23

Summary This paper surveys the empirical evidence on causal effects of education on earnings for Germany and compares alternative studies in the light of their underlying identifying assumptions. We work out the different assumptions taken by various studies, which lead to rather different...

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Multiple language usage and earnings in Western Europe

Williams, Donald R. - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) 4, pp. 372-393

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the return to multiple language usage in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – This article aims to estimate the effect that using an additional language at work has on earnings for a sample of workers in the European Community...

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Gender wage gap and education: a stochastic frontier approach

Garcia-Prieto, Carmen; Gómez-Costilla, Patricia - In: International Journal of Manpower 38 (2017) 3, pp. 504-516

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to get deeper insight into the measurement of gender wage gap. A proper method to identify which part of gender wage differences is due to discrimination against women is provided, and the relationship between wage differences and education is studied....

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Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal

Valente, Christine - In: The World Bank Economic Review 28 (2014) 2, pp. 354-383

Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many argue also brought about an increase in female empowerment. This paper exploits variations in exposure to conflict by birth cohort, survey date, and district to estimate the impact...

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Returns to different levels of education in Russia

Dolgikh, Sofiia; Potanin, Bogdan - In: Journal of Economic Studies 51 (2024) 8, pp. 1647-1663

Purpose Education system stimulates the development of human capital and provides informative signaling allowing to differentiate productivity of individuals. If education system is efficient then higher levels of education usually associated with greater returns on labor market. To evaluate the...

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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - In: The World Bank Economic Review 28 (2014) 2, pp. 210-246

Two related measures of educational inequality are proposed: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have typically...

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