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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2015
empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309457
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2016
empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494016
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Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings
Antoni, Manfred - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099679
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The cohort size-wage relationship in Europe
Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2013 - Preliminary draft
effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows …The demographic and education composition of European countries is changing: the population share of young individuals … is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534677
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The cohort size-wage relationship in Europe
Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2013
The demographic and education composition of European countries is changing: the population share of young individuals … is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This paper estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … the labour force. The effect of cohort size on wages is identified through an instrumental variables strategy which, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193287
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Educational mismatches of newly hired workers : sort and medium-run effects on wages
Araújo, Isabel; Carneiro, Anabela - 2020
mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers … results also indicate that the wages of individuals in the beginning of their labour market career are the most affected by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286352
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Uneven performance of Taiwan-born wage earners in the American and Canadian job market : important roles of educational attainment and entry age
Liaw, Kao-lee; Lin, Ji-ping; Liu, Chien-chia - 2015
For the Taiwan-born male and female wage earners in America and Canada, this paper attempts to find their wage gaps between the two host countries and to explain the wage gaps by three factors (educational attainment, the age at entering the host country, and the recency of the entry) in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300237
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The long-term effects of military conscription on educational attainment and wages
Hubers, Frank; Webbink, Herman Dinand - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-16
This study investigates the long-term effects of peace-time military conscription on educational attainment and earnings by exploiting a policy change that exempted a complete birth cohort from military service. We find that compulsory military service decreases the proportion of Dutch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333980
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating …
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … it appears the result of both a glass ceiling effect, due to the complementarity between parental education and son …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317905