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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550294
nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age - to our knowledge for the first time. The highly educated went …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770417
This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We find a positive effect of education on life … function as a unifying explanation for the asymmetric effect of education on life satisfaction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380662
This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We find a positive effect of education on life … function as a unifying explanation for the asymmetric effect of education on life satisfaction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014362768
Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …
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training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … opportunity cost of education and prevent further skill accumulation. On the other hand, they lower the employment probability of … workers declines which lowers the opportunity cost of education. High requirements with regard to professional skills …
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost classroom instruction on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum....
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342904
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 …
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