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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. - 2005
Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor market. At the same time, education is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267379
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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. - 2005
Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor market. At the same time, education is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261362
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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor) - 2005
Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor market. At the same time, education is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003189636
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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education more than triples from primary to secondary level or...
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Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings
Antoni, Manfred - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099679
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Earnings Dynamics : The Role of Education throughout a Worker's Career
Braga, Breno - 2017
receive more on-the-job training in the beginning of their careers. In addition, educated workers suffer greater wage losses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955095
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Home Production and Wages : Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Hersch, Joni - 2009
Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2006, this paper finds that housework has a negative relation with wages for both women and men. The negative relation between housework time and wages is not likely to arise from omitted working conditions that are correlated with...
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Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital : Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
specification of the wage function is estimated from household (LSMS) surveys of the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Specification tests … assess whether the human capital inputs are exogenous, and instrumental variable techniques are used to estimate the wage … more efficient instruments to estimate the wage equation. The conclusion emerges that weight-for-height and height are …
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Chapter 5 Educational Wage Premia and the Distribution of Earnings: An International Perspective
Peracchi, Franco - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 189-254). 2006
This chapter analyzes the international evidence on the relationship between educational wage premia and the …
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The effects of high school curriculum on education and labor market outcomes
Altonji, Joseph G. - 1992
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