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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2015
Based on a law enacted in November 1999, males born on or before December 31st 1972 are given the option to benefit from a paid exemption from the compulsory military service in Turkey. Exploiting this natural experiment, we devise an empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect...
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2016
Based on a law enacted in November 1999, males born on or before December 31st 1972 are given the option to benefit from a paid exemption from compulsory military service in Turkey. Exploiting this natural experiment, we devise an empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494016
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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of age and gender
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-37
We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian linked panel data. Findings highlight that educational credentials have a stronger impact on productivity than on wage costs. Firms’ profitability is found to rise when lower...
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Sheepskin effects in Japan
Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002
Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413686
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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany
Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native … schooling in the source country where education was obtained. In particular, lower school quality reduces the endowment … the unexplained part in the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. These findings emphasize the role of the school quality in …
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An Examination of Sheepskin Effects Over Time
Habermalz, Steffen - 2021
Previous empirical specifications are not flexible enough to capture the true pattern of sheepskin effects over time. If the quality of the match between the worker and the job contributes to earnings and if higher ability workers more easily reveal their true productivity, sheepskin effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320023
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Sheepskin Effects in Japan
Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2021
Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effect are only important for workers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320394
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Basic reading and mathematics skills and the labour market outcomes of young people : evidence from PISA and linked administrative data
Meehan, Lisa; Pacheco, Gail; Schober, Thomas - 2023
This paper uses Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data linked to administrative data to track the educational and labour market outcomes of young people. Students with lower skills have lower rates of participation in further education. While men with low skills out-earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228646
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market … and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their … academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283120
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310