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Skilled or educated? : educational reforms, human capital and earnings
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016
We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our … education has the strongest earnings effect. A one standard deviation increase in years of education raises earnings by almost … 22 percentage points (corresponding to a return to education above 7 percentage points), which compares with a lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776249
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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations
Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020
capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level … relevant teacher training, and sustained competitiveness of higher education institutions as key areas for improvement. It also … points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421216
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023424
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227796
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013550210
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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547022
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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
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
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128718
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763908
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971651