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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country : the case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio (contributor); Tansel, Aysıt (contributor) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228027
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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country : the case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013 - This version: November 3, 2013
from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey … characterized by fast economic and social development. Although English is the most widely spoken foreign language in Turkey, we …. Focusing on English, we also explore the heterogeneity in returns to different levels of proficiency by frequency of English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199039
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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country : the case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013 - This version: November 3, 2013
from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey … characterized by fast economic and social development. Although English is the most widely spoken foreign language in Turkey, we …. Focusing on English, we also explore the heterogeneity in returns to different levels of proficiency by frequency of English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200435
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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country : the case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013
from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey … characterized by fast economic and social development. Although English is the most widely spoken foreign language in Turkey, we …. Focusing on English, we also explore the heterogeneity in returns to different levels of proficiency by frequency of English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208479
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Does vocational education pay off in China? : evidence from city-level education supply shocks
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024
China hosts the world's largest secondary education sector: more than 14 million adolescents enrol in secondary academic or vocational schools every year. Despite the large literature on returns to education, little evidence exists as to how these two streams compare in the country. Using 2013...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525268
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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262177
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Expected work experience : a new human capital measure
Zveglich, Joseph E.; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; … - 2019
Work experience is a key variable in earnings function estimates and wage gap decompositions. Because data on actual work experience are rare, studies commonly use proxies, such as potential experience. But potential experience is identical for all individuals of the same age and level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962834
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285605
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270418
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When the minimum wage really bites hard: impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271659