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Education and efficient redistribution
Dur, Robert A. J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2001
Should education be subsidized for the purpose of redistribution? The usual argument against subsidies to education … above the primary level is that the rich take up most education, so a subsidy would increase inequality. We show that there … there is a demand for redistribution, the general equilibrium effects on relative wages might make a subsidy to education an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400867
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Education and efficient redistribution
Dur, Robert A. J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003 - This version: June 2003
Should education be subsidized for the purpose of redistribution? The usual argument against subsidies to education … above the primary level is that the rich take up most education, so a subsidy would increase inequality. We show that there … there is a demand for redistribution, the general equilibrium effects on relative wages might make a subsidy to education an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317437
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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training
Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325670
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A comparison of the human capital and signaling models : the case of the self-employed and the increase in the schooling premium in the 1980's
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980's. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335240
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Heterogeneity in the production of human capital
Polachek, Solomon W.; Das, Tirthatanmoy; … - 2013
learn. Higher parental education is associated with a greater ability to learn, lower skill depreciation, and a smaller time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729709
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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2021
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319430
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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023
Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479670
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Leadership skills and wages
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411183
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Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions
Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John Henry; Haider, Steven - 2009
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naive regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832324
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Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2012
Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources of wage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. We address this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530289