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The consumption value of higher education
Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2009
The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual's educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
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Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earning data
Dale, Stacy; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011
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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The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA
Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … model and their labor market earnings using the human capital earnings function that is estimated with an ordinary least … earnings, and those from countries with a greater concentration of Catholic missionaries exhibit lower levels of both, compared …
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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes : the case of creatine
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2014
Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour market outcomes over the period 1990-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine...
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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and …
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Inequality and specialization : the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … polarized after 1980, with growing employment and earnings in both high-skill occupations and low-skill service jobs. -- Skill …
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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market : Evidence from U.S. Cities
Bleakley, C. Hoyt - 2019
Using U.S. Census microdata, the authors show that, on average, workers change occupation and industry less in more densely populated areas. The result is robust to standard demographic controls, as well as to including aggregate measures of human capital and sectoral mix. Analysis of the...
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The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Isphording, Ingo E.; Sinning, Mathias - 2013
This paper uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the returns to language skills of child and adult migrants in the US labor market. We employ an instrumental variable strategy, which exploits differences in language acquisition profiles between immigrants from English-...
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