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IV Quantile Regression for Group-Level Treatments, with an Application to the Effects of Trade on the Distribution of Wages

Chetverikov, Denis - 2013

We present a methodology for estimating the distributional effects of an endogenous treatment that varies at the group level when there are group-level unobservables, a quantile extension of Hausman and Taylor (1981). Standard quantile regression techniques are inconsistent in this setting, even...

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Voluntary work and wages

Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano F. G. - 2014

The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...

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Post-Secondary Education in Canada : Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap between College and University Graduates?

Caponi, Vincenzo - 2007

Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike … previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find … strong evidence of positive ability selection into all levels of post-secondary education for men and weaker positive …

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Wage differentials in Sri Lanka : the case of a post-conflict country with a free education policy

Kumara, Ajantha Sisira - In: International journal of education economics and development 6 (2015) 4, pp. 343-365

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Returns to routine job tasks in the German labour market : an instrumental variables approach

Mihaylov, Emil - 2021 - Revision November 2021

This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally representative data from the German Employment Survey, the paper finds that routine job tasks are negatively and significantly associated with workers hourly wages; the negative...

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Self-Employment in China : Are Rural Migrant Workers and Urban Residents Alike?

Cui, Yuling - 2014

This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project...

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Self-employment in China : are rural migrant workers and urban residents alike?

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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