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Timing of school entry and personality traits in adulthood
Barabasch, Anton; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Leibing, Andreas - 2024
This paper investigates the long-run consequences of a later school entry for personality traits. For identification, we exploit the statutory cutoff rules for school enrollment in Germany within a regression discontinuity design. We find that relatively older school starters have persistently...
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Skills and inclusive growth in Sweden
Pareliussen, Jon K.; Bussi, Margherita; André, Christophe - 2015
. Educational outcomes could be improved through raising the attractiveness of the teacher profession, improving teacher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399516
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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410676
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Leadership skills and wages
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411183
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Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings
Antoni, Manfred - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099679
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Chapter 12 Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 697-812). 2006
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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Basic reading and mathematics skills and the labour market outcomes of young people : evidence from PISA and linked administrative data
Meehan, Lisa; Pacheco, Gail; Schober, Thomas - 2023
education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228646
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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations
Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020
capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level … relevant teacher training, and sustained competitiveness of higher education institutions as key areas for improvement. It also … points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …
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Employment and skills in Finland
Pareliussen, Jon Kristian; André, Christophe; Chalaux, … - 2016
generates the tax receipts on which the social safety net depends. Further enhancing education and life-long learning would …
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