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The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as … IV estimates using parental education as an IV, but a negligible impact on those using spousal education. Using the …. -- returns to education ; sample selection ; instrument variable estimation ; Chinese labor market …
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This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...
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This paper examines the relationship between attitudes towards foreigners and the share of foreigners at the occupational level. Using a question on equal opportunities for foreigners from the Swiss House-hold Panel, ordered probit regressions with standard controls show that: (a) there is a...
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This paper attempts to test whether women systematically get less education than their male siblings and is based on … systematically get less parental investment in their education than their male siblings. Thus, pure human capital models of labour …
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people in education, is also linked to the overall decline in youth unemployment. Finally, as regards education, the results … indicate that the number of years of education, the number of young people with vocational training and, to a lesser extent … a well-functioning education system and labour market institutions that do not introduce distortions into the labour …
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A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education … paper investigates the role of “qualitative” education-job matches in explaining these poor labor market outcomes. Using a …. Successful matching is also found to significantly improve the return to pre-migration education and work experience. …
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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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This paper studies the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. The paper show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker’s earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The...
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We study the impact of student debt on various labor market outcomes, namely, labor market income, hourly wages, hours worked, and probability of full-time employment. Using data from the NLSY97 surveys and a difference-in-difference approach, we find statistically significant differences in...
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both types of the educational mismatch.The quality of education is also a factor, suggesting that in addition to the low …
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