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The human capital theory : encouragement and criticism
Kolomiiets, Uliana; Petrushenko, Yuriy - In: SocioEconomic challenges : SEC 1 (2017) 1, pp. 77-80
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Maintaining (locus of) control? : assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
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Wage effects from changes in local human capital in Britain
Kaplanis, Ioannis - 2010
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Long-run effects of catholic schooling on wages
Jha, Nikhil; Polidano, Cain - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 4, pp. 2017-2045
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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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Wages in high-tech start-ups : do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?
Dorner, Matthias; Fryges, Helmut; Schopen, Kathrin - 2015
wages in start‐ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the direction of wage differentials between spin‐offs and non … higher wages to employees with linkages to the university sector – either as university graduates or as student workers. …
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Wages in high-tech start-ups : do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?
Dorner, Matthias; Fryges, Helmut; Schopen, Kathrin - 2015
comprehensive theoretical assessment nor the empirical literature on wages in start-ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the … spin-offs that commercialise new scientific results or methods provide higher wages to employees with linkages to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279772
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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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...
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
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