Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,442
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310
Cover Image
Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry
Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528800
Cover Image
The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398725
Cover Image
The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404529
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry
Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … evidence on the moderating roles of age, gender and industry in the relationship between education, productivity and wage costs … costs is more compressed than the education-productivity profile. This effect, robust across industries, is found to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586229
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011860990
Cover Image
Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194172
Cover Image
Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355
Cover Image
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
education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228646