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This paper investigates the effects of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) on residents of buildings qualifying for the credit. Specifically, it analyzes whether individuals who grow up in LIHTC housing are more likely to enroll in post-secondary education programs and have higher earnings...
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Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …
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wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in high demand and that there is a relative scarcity. Policymakers …
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have substantial effects on wages and income inequality. Urban costs play an important role for locational and economic … with endogenous markups on wages and selection. With increasing commuting technology only more productive and less firms … survive. Firms have higher costs because they have to pay higher wages to compensate workers for the higher urban costs …
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forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …
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This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph … individual wages. It leads to a wage penalty of about between 23% and 25%, more than twice bigger than average, a sizeable gap …
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Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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-graduation starting real wages and whether the latter are differently influenced by the reasons behind these discontinuities. We analyse … instruments. Conditional on the levels of schooling and experience, we find a positive effect on wages of temporary schooling …
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