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Selective schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316915
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Selective schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - In: Bulletin of economic research 56 (2004) 3, pp. 207-225
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002132186
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Selective schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001450005
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments
Hempell, Thomas - 2003
This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297271
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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-Level Evidence On Complementarities between ICT and Human Capital Investments
Hempell, Thomas - 2008
This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm-sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994-98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080504
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Einkommenserträge von Bildungsabschlüssen im Lebensverlauf: Aktuelle Berechnungen für Deutschland
Piopiunik, Marc; Kugler, Franziska; Wößmann, Ludger - In: ifo Schnelldienst 70 (2017) 07, pp. 19-30
Was bringt ein höherer Bildungsabschluss unter dem Strich? Wer eine Lehre macht, nimmt während der Ausbildungszeit als Lehrling Einkommenseinbußen im Vergleich zu einer ungelernten Tätigkeit in Kauf, hofft dann in der Folge aber auf höhere Arbeitseinkommen. Noch viel mehr gilt dies für...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694126
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Causal returns to schooling and individual heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282161
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Causal returns to schooling and individual heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545261