This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A … unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of … growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …

terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using …

higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines … skills and use them effectively in the workplace. Special attention needs to be devoted to supporting disadvantaged students … and adults in developing critical skills and reducing the skills imbalances in the labour market, which can contribute to …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …

We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries …

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups due to different levels of control … of education and non-random selection. The results indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity …

-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students … strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …

between occupational feminization and wages and estimate the contribution of occupational sex-segregation to the gender pay … wages. This has traditionally been attributed to societal mechanisms undervaluing the work mainly performed by women. More …. We examine whether lower wages in female-dominated occupations in Britain are explained by differences in specialized …

skills are important in determining mean wages, personality traits have little explanatory power. However, quantile … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap. …We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …