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Chiu, Shih-Yung; Chuang, Hwei-lin - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 52 (2016) 4/6, pp. 853-868

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Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother : evidence from Brazilian data

Narita, Renata Del Tedesco; Diaz, Maria Dolores Montoya - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 238-252

school completion and labor market participation than for schooling or wages. A reduction in teenage pregnancy by one … standard deviation explains (i) 9.2% of the increase in high school completion and (ii) 5.4% of the increase in women's labor … education are greater for younger than for older women, suggesting that women who give birth as teenagers tend to catch up with …

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Impact of first birth career interruption on earnings : evidence from administrative data

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 34/36, pp. 3509-3522

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The wage premium puzzle and the quality of human capital

Marquis, Milton H.; Trehan, Bharat; Tantivong, Wuttipan - 2011

The wage premium for high-skilled workers in the United States, measured as the ratio of the 90th-to-10th percentiles from the wage distribution, increased by 20 percent from the 1970s to the late 1980s. A large literature has emerged to explain this phenomenon. A leading explanation is that...

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Returns to ICT skills

Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016

How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...

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The wage premium puzzle and the quality of human capital

Marquis, Milton H.; Trehan, Bharat; Tantivong, Wuttipan - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 33 (2014), pp. 100-110

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Comparing sample survey measures of English earnings of graduates with administrative data during the Great Recession

Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; Vignoles, Anna - 2015

This paper compares survey based labour earnings data for English graduates, taken from the UK's Labour Force Survey (LFS), with the UK Government administrative sources of official individual level earnings data. This type of administrative data has few sample selection issues, is substantially...

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The changing and unchanged nature of inequality and seniority in Japan

Yamada, Ken; Kawaguchi, Daiji - In: Journal of economic inequality 13 (2015) 1, pp. 129-153

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Non-formal education, overeducation and wages

Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl - In: Revista de economía aplicada : publicación cuatrimestral 21 (2013) 61, pp. 5-28

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Immigrant earnings profiles in the presence of human capital investment : measuring cohort and macro effects

Green, David A.; Worswick, Christopher - 2004

Considering immigrant earnings in the context of post-arrival human capital investment implies: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of macro effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native born...

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