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This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...
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This paper uses Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data linked to administrative data to track the …
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While there is a broad consensus in the literature that there is a positive correlation between Internet usage and labor income in the richest countries, this link has not been proven in the developing world. This paper uses propensity score matching techniques and household survey data to...
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This paper discusses various methods for assessing group differences in academic achievement using only the ordinal content of achievement test scores. Researchers and policymakers frequently draw conclusions about achievement differences between various populations using methods that rely on...
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The wage effects of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the GSOEP for West Germany. Different estimators which take into account selection bias are used. It is shown that propensity score matching estimators which are usually applied for the evaluation of active labour market...
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and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a … for formal-informal wage gap within gender groups, the semi-parametric estimates suggest that the observed formal … unemployment rates, the semi-parametric methods show that these gaps are insensitive to unemployment rate variations across regions …
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The wage effects of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the GSOEP for West Germany. Different estimators which take into account selection bias are used. It is shown that propensity score matching estimators which are usually applied for the evaluation of active labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447109
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work … the decomposition, as well as various estimation methods proposed in the literature. We also illustrate how these methods …
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inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …
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inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286634