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Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, hiring channels, and wages in Bangladesh
Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R. - 2018
This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871907
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269488
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Is there an informal employment wage premium? : evidence from Tajikistan
Staneva, Anita V.; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-24
This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings between formal and informal … wage premium across the whole earnings distribution. Taking advantage of RES, 90:290-299, 2008matching approach and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251138
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The impact of training on earnings : differences between participant groups and training forms
Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
participation on earnings correcting for the endogeneity of training participation. By using a broad list of employee and employer … the literature on earnings effects of training. First, the earnings effect of training is calculated for different "types … distinguish between the earnings impact of external and internal training. For our analysis, we use the "Qualification and Career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448693
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The wage returns to education over the life-cycle : heterogeneity and the role of experience
Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015
This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428026
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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283115
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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283839
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - 2015
This paper investigates how much of the difference in wage distributions is related to differences in skill distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some countries that have more compressed (dispersed) wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335002
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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000
/or for the endogeneity of educational choices by using instrumental variables significantly increases the returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325989
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Cognitive performance and labor market outcomes
Lin, Dajun; Lutter, Randall W.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016
We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517671