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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 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...
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoniy, Manfred; Heineckz, Guido - 2012
regulated but has gained flexibility in the last 15 years? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between adults …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670708
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 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/10009624364
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 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/10009629024
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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 a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Individual behaviour as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 588, pp. 372-393
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Individual behavior as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - 2013
hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204606
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 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/10010323787
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 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/10010289876
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The role of body weight for health, earnings, and life satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …
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