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Unreported income, education and subjective well-being
Molnár, György; Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702810
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2021
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319204
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Over-education and immigrant earnings: a penalized quantile panel regression analysis
Maani, Sholeh A.; Wen, Le - 2021
Despite evidence that immigrants experience a higher incidence of over-education, relatively few studies have considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using longitudinal data and penalized quantile panel regression, we inspect the earnings effects of job mismatches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431190
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A panel study of immigrants' overeducation and earnings in Australia
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2017
The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776014
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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385407
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Does composition matter? : wage inequality and the demographic and educational structure of the labor force in Gemany
Klemm, Marcus; Weigert, Benjamin - 2014 - This version: November 2014
/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality …. Mechanically, these compositional shifts entail a rise in wage inequality. We demonstrate this mechanism theoretically and present … to one quarter of the observed increase in aggregate wage inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429242
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Persistence bias and the wage-schooling model
Andini, Corrado - 2013
This paper provides an expression for the bias of the OLS estimator of the schooling coefficient in a simple static wage-schooling model where earnings persistence is not accounted for. It is argued that the OLS estimator of the schooling coefficient is biased upward, and the bias is increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699444
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Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002 - Revised September 2002
Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447744
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The effects of policies concerning teachers' wages on students' performance
Varga, Júlia - 2017
Using country panel data of student achievement from PISA, 2003-2012 combined with national-level teacher salary data from the OECD; this study investigates if relatively short term -5-years - changes in the level and structure of statutory teacher salaries affect student performance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628327