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-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (Armed Forces … by heterogeneity while individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We … reduction in the cost of higher education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and …
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Premiums and eligibility for health insurance may cause a "marriage lock," in which couples stay married for the sake … estimates thus provide evidence that marriage lock exists. …
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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 education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education … paper investigates the role of “qualitative” education-job matches in explaining these poor labor market outcomes. Using a …. Successful matching is also found to significantly improve the return to pre-migration education and work experience. …
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different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on … education-related periods that are creditable for the Pension Insurance. Combining these periods with information on the … share of high-skilled (low-skilled) for the oldest age groups. Comparing our imputed education variable with information on …
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Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...
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In this note we revisit the paper by Fonseca et al. (Series 11: 83-103, 2020) who find that education has a positive … effect on health. They use several compulsory schooling reforms as instruments for education. Our objective is to replicate …
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its byproduct, as better education and personal characteristics could be both economically beneficial and increase the …
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