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the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed …
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empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
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empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
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/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 …
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regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education … this premise in mind, this paper aims to estimate the effect of the quality of this education-occupation job match on … education (college or more). Using data from the American Community Survey 2010-16, we construct two indices that measure the …
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/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 …
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This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso … results indicate that rates of return rise by level of education, and the public sector does not compensate female primary … education. The findings suggest that current education polices which focus on increasing primary schooling supply be …
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This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany … to be higher than that for actual years of education. In the case of correctly matched workers who have the ‘typical …’ education in a certain occupation, there is no additional reward in earnings for natives compared to foreign workers. Immigrants …
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Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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fathers have low levels of education - indicating important human capital effects for underprivileged boys. Consistent with …
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