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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...
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linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale … and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … self-reported reported in 1995 on the C&B follow-up survey. In this analysis, we use administrative earnings data to …
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, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in … the U.S. Early analyses of skill-related differences compared the earnings of workers across occupations. The general …
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differences in earnings only if education is productive. Economy-wide changes in the return to ed- ucation have an impact on all …This paper uses differences in educational attainment by birth cohorts to estimate the rise in the education premium in … birth cohorts in any given year, permitting a uniform estimation strategy during different time periods. Potential cohort …
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-run earnings, employment, family income, household formation, and geographic mobility. We observe long-run outcomes by linking both … find treated children have between 5 to 6 percent higher earnings as young adults. The results are quite large for young … increases in earnings in adulthood. Finally, we find that increased earnings start at ages 21 and older for the treated students …
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various years to examine the relationship between cohort-level private schooling rates and later earnings during adulthood. We … also explore differences by sex and examine the role played by the quantity of education completed and occupational … attainment. We find a significant positive relationship between private schooling rates and adult earnings for women but a small …
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This paper compares the labour market returns to ability in Indonesia and the United States. In Indonesia, I find that the mathematics ability has no significant effect on income, while general cognitive ability positively affects income, with higher ability rewarded at an increasing rate....
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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment …, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that … positive correlations between education and labour force transitions are likely to be confounded by the endogeneity of …
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This paper develops a two-period labor market model with imperfect information and on-the-job training, and uses data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohorts (NLSY79) to test its predictions. We find that training does not explain the positive relationship between employer size...
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