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Have the returns to education really increased in Vietnam? : wage versus employment effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang Hong Doan - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 41 (2013) 3, pp. 923-938
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Household Debt Overhang and Human Capital Investment
Manso, Gustavo; Rivera, Alejandro; Wang, Hui; Xia, Han - 2022
Unlike labor income, human capital is inseparable from individuals and does not accrue to creditors at default. As a consequence, human capital investment should be more resilient to “debt overhang” than labor supply. We develop a dynamic model displaying this important difference. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013492585
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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262177
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Financial constraints, migration and inequality
Assunção, Juliano J.; Carvalho, Leandro S. - 2005
Although the self-selection of emigrants is determined by differences in the returns to education, according to the celebrated Roy model, empirical evidence suggests that migrants tend to be favorably selected. This paper argues that financial con- straints might be useful to explain this...
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Access to college and heterogeneous returns to education in China
Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - In: Economics of education review 42 (2014), pp. 78-92
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High school track choice and liquidity constraints : evidence from urban Mexico
Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo; Pariguana, Marco - 2017
We study how a large household windfall affects sorting of relatively disadvantaged youth over high school tracks by exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of a welfare program in Mexico. The in-cash transfer is found to significantly increase the probability of selecting vocational...
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High school track choice and liquidity constraints : evidence from urban Mexico
Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo; Pariguana, Marco - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216941
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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262135
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It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma: Roma discrimination and returns to education in South Eastern Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - 2009
, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML methods are employed to control for endogenous schooling and two sources of … extent of discrimination. The key results are that: the employment returns to education are lower for Roma than for non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269008
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across … a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271753