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Education and within groups earning inequality in Pakistan

Sial, Maqbool H.; Sarwar, Ghulam; Akram, Waseem - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 12 (2018) 1, pp. 183-197

of education in Pakistan. Utilizing four rounds of household level surveys conducted at national level during 2001 … have enlarged lower as well as upper tail of earning distribution causing further income inequality in Pakistan. Therefore …, general welfare and labor markets in Pakistan. …

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Revisiting the relationship between ability and sheepskin effects of schooling on individual earnings : the case of Pakistan

Shabbir, Tayyeb - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 12 (2018) 2, pp. 419-442

-Lagunes and Light (2010) for the U. S., Riddle (2008) for Canada and Shabbir & Ashraf (2011) and Shabbir (2013) for Pakistan …. Shabbir and Ashraf (2011) summarily reports that the sheepskin effects for rural Pakistan persist in the face of controls for … reconfirms that significant sheepskin effects exist for rural Pakistan for diplomas obtained by completing primary, high school …

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The importance of the quality of education : some determinants and its effects on earning returns and economic growth

Grazzini, Lisa - In: Economia pubblica : the Italian journal of public … 43 (2016) 2, pp. 43-82

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Self-selection in the market of teachers

Correa, Juan A.; Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 13/15, pp. 1331-1349

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society? : education benefits individuals, but the societal benefits are likely even greater

Winters, John V. - 2015

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher earnings, even for locals with relatively little...

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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 298-328

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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital

Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....

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Genes, education, and labor market outcomes : evidence from the health and retirement study

Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2016

Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...

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Teacher literacy and numeracy skills : international evidence from PIAAC and ALL

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Vermeulen, Stan; Wolf, Inge de - 2016

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...

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Sibling health, schooling and longer-term developmental outcomes

Ryan, Chris; Zhu, Anna - 2016

We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the detrimental, long-term developmental consequences of having an ill or disabled sibling. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we employ a Regression...

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