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Marriage, money and migration
Åström, Johanna - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904238
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The long-term effects of military conscription on educational attainment and wages
Hubers, Frank; Webbink, Herman Dinand - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-16
This study investigates the long-term effects of peace-time military conscription on educational attainment and earnings by exploiting a policy change that exempted a complete birth cohort from military service. We find that compulsory military service decreases the proportion of Dutch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333980
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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? : firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation
Dostie, Benoît - 2015
Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430770
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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379475
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Bullying at school and labour market outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men … wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage … the labour market and lower wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754885
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Occupational sex-segregation, specialized human capital and wages : evidence from Britain
Perales, Francisco - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 27 (2013) 4, pp. 600-620
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791102
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External returns to higher education in Mexico 2000-2010
Pereira-López, Mariana; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Ensayos : revista de economia 34 (2015) 1, pp. 1-34
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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument
Winters, John V. - 2014
Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549190
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Do startup employees earn more in the long run?
Sorenson, Olav; Dahl, Michael S.; Canales, Rodrigo; … - In: Organization science : a journal of the Institute for … 32 (2021) 3, pp. 587-604
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609377