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inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyse the association between parents' education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children's education translates into earnings …
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Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion in Indonesia to estimate the returns to schooling. Under the study's difference-in-differences (DID) design, two patterns in the data-shallower pay scales for younger workers and negative selection in treatment-can violate the parallel trends...
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productivity developments and help businesses to weather the COVID-19 shock. Building on the population’s solid education levels by … substantial boost to professional education and training at all levels and ages. This chapter applies the 2018 OECD Jobs Strategy …
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High-paying factory jobs in the 1940s were an engine of egalitarian economic growth for a generation. Are there alternate forms of work organization that deliver similar benefits for frontline workers? Work organization varies by type of complexity and degree of employer control. Technical and...
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returns to schooling and over-education rates by country-of-origin. The key finding is that accounting for schooling quality … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …
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interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of earnings ability propitiated by schooling when years of education are …
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We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...
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latent types. For the latent type with a low propensity for attending college, receiving 13 or more years of education leads … to higher income than having 12 years or fewer years. However, the estimated returns to education for this group is …
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. We show that discriminating between gender, education level, experience, the public and the private sector, and … variation across education and experience groups. The average effect of training is similar in the private sector and in the … public sector. Experience in the private sector and education in the public sector are key determinants of the returns to …
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Work-related training is considered to be very important for providing the workforce with the necessary skills for maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the firms and the economy. On the individual level, the primary effect of training should be an increased productivity of the...
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