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also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …
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also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494016
also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987690
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …
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This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …. Following the 1940 Decennial Census, which collected information on educational attainment and on earned income and time worked … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …
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This study measures the persistence in income and education over three generations in Switzerland. I use administrative … data covering the universe of labor income since 1982 and family linkages over three generations. Most studies rely on … underestimates persistence in education. The intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) is around 0.22 between two and 0.05 between …
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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This paper provides estimates of the private financial return to education based on large samples of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins which we obtain from Danish population registers. Our estimation exploits the fact that our data is a long panel. We show that the rising inequality,...
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Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic volatility. In this paper I provide the most consistent estimates of returns to education so far, while I also investigate earnings profiles over time. This paper contributes to...
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