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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
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The Wage Effects of Schooling Under Socialism and in Transition : Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000
Earle, John S.; Andren, Daniela; Sapatoru, Dana - 2008
We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067987
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Workers, workplaces, sorting, and wage dispersion in Mexico
Pérez Pérez, Jorge; Nuño-Ledesma, José G. - 2024
Between 2004 and 2018, the spread of wages in Mexico's private labor sector remained stable. Nonetheless, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577713
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Sources of wage growth
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022
This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170247
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Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training
Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for labour market research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14
This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of … skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly - yet differently - rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013550210
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of … skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly - yet differently - rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227796
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Sources of wage growth
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382321
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The promise of workplace training for non-college-bound youth : theory and evidence from German apprenticeship
Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - 2001
This paper assesses the potential of "workplace training" with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational … broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the effectiveness of apprenticeship using a large administrative dataset. We find … returns to apprenticeship for even the lowest ability school-leavers comparable to standard estimates of the return to school …
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