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Elitism in higher education and inequality : why are the Nordic countries so special?

Brezis, Elise S. - 2018

This paper shows that countries with high levels of "elitism" in higher-education are the countries displaying high levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight selection in top universities leads to a wider gap in wages...

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Gender specialization in households: An empirical analysis

Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007

This paper studies the effect of parental education on the educational attainment of children in the US for cohorts born after 1910. Importantly, we allow for cohort-specific differences by gender. Our estimates show that paternal education has been more important for the attainment of male...

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Microfoundations of earnings differences

Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - In: The Palgrave handbook of economic performance analysis, (pp. 9-76). 2019

This paper examines how human capital-based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional … estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters. The paper finds one's ability to learn and one’s ability to retain … knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …

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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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The returns to ability and experience in high school labor markets : revisiting evidence on employer learning and statistical discrimination

Li, Xizi; Ross, Stephen L. - 2019

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Interpreting sheepskin effects of investment in schooling

Shabbir, Tayyeb; Ashraf, Javed - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 202-215

completion in determining earnings. According to the results of this paper, the sheepskin effects prove to be robust both to an …

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Interpreting sheepskin effects of investment in schooling

Shabbir, Tayyeb; Ashraf, Javed - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 5 (2011) 2, pp. 202-215

completion in determining earnings. According to the results of this paper, the sheepskin effects prove to be robust both to an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009577303

Handedness, ability, earnings and risk : evidence from the lab

Sartarelli, Marcello - 2016 - Version: October 2016

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Can education compensate for low ability? Evidence from British data (version 3.0)

Denny, Kevin; O'Sullivan, Vincent - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2004

determination of earnings. Using a measure of cognitive ability based on tests taken at ages 7 and 11 we find, unlike most of the … to schooling varies across the conditional distribution of earnings. The results show that the return is lower for higher …

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Can education compensate for low ability? Evidence from British data (version 3.2)

Denny, Kevin; O'Sullivan, Vincent - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2004

across the conditional distribution of earnings. The results show that the return is lower for higher quantiles, suggesting …

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