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The Impact of Education on Wages : Analysis of an Education Reform in Turkey

Mocan, Leyla - 2014

In 1997 Turkey passed a law making middle school completion compulsory, increasing the mandatory education from 5 to 8 years. At the time of this policy change, only 3-in-5 students were completing middle school in Turkey. In this paper, I employ data from the 2011 and 2012 Turkish Household...

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An Examination of Sheepskin Effects Over Time

Habermalz, Steffen - 2021

Previous empirical specifications are not flexible enough to capture the true pattern of sheepskin effects over time. If the quality of the match between the worker and the job contributes to earnings and if higher ability workers more easily reveal their true productivity, sheepskin effects...

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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments

Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...

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Culture, feedback, and gender in education

Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

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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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes

Simon, Lisa - 2019

über das Bildungsniveau von Flüchtlingen, die Wahrnehmung der Teilnehmer hierzu experimentell verändert. Die Ergebnisse … zeigen, dass ein höheres wahrgenommenes Bildungsniveau von Flüchtlingen, Sorgen der Teilnehmer um Wettbewerb auf dem … Meisterbriefes als notwendige Qualifikation für die Selbstständigkeit in etwa der Hälfte aller Handwerksberufe. Anhand individualer …

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Overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago's labour market : a quantile regression approach

Doon, Roshnie - 2021

This study examines the impact that over-education has on the earnings of private and public sector workers in Trinidad and Tobago. Using individual person's data from the Continuous Sample Survey of the Population (CSSP) for the period 1991-2015, the returns of over-educated workers is...

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Are Poles stuck in overeducation? : individual dynamics of educational mismatch in Poland

Baran, Jan Aleksander - In: Baltic journal of economics 24 (2024) 1, pp. 145-179

The paper investigates the short-run job mobility of educationally mismatched workers, examining the validity of the Sicherman-Galor hypothesis, which predicts that overeducation is a temporary condition from a worker's perspective associated with higher upward occupational and wage mobility....

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