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estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
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A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of … institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students … lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
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). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging … regions this might not be the case both because of brain drain (Becker, 1964) and because of their inefficient labour markets … regions should be very careful when investing in learning mobility and that EU Cohesion Policy should pay more attention to …
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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
estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419546
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving …. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …. Furthermore, the paper also delves the development of higher education in the country since independence. The paper provides some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836463
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving …. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …. Furthermore, the paper also delves the development of higher education in the country since independence. The paper provides some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789784
period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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