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Since 1973 median compensation in the United States has diverged starkly from average labor productivity. Since 2000, average compensation has also begun to diverge from labor productivity. These divergences lead to the question: Holding all else equal, to what extent does productivity growth...
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This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …
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A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...
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use both education and past job displacement as a signal of a worker's unobservable ability. As a result, educated workers …
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In a recent and widely cited paper, Ashenfelter and Krueger (1994) use a new sample of identical twins to test whether schooling represents an investment in human capital or is merely a proxy for genetic ability. I re-examine Ashenfelter and Krueger's estimates using three additional years of...
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Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent … forms of human capital are similar within each country for men and women, but education and migration returns are higher in …
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This chapter analyzes the international evidence on the relationship between educational wage premia and the distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is known about the contribution of differences in relative wages across schooling levels to the degree of variability,...
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Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …
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This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
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This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …
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