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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325967
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
between human capital and wages are described. Three types of estimation problem are discussed: (1) bias due to omitted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080486
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087237
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613259
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Chapter 2. The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 89-200). 2011
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025660
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the … years of under-education. A set of predictions is presented to assess the relative importance of these channels, and the … over-education channel is shown to be the more influential factor. This channel is linked to greater positive selection in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688727
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The price of experience
Jeong, Hyeok; Kim, Yong; Manovskii, Iourii - 2012
demand shifts. Moreover, these demographic changes account for the differential dynamics of the age premium across education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683488
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Wage Growth over the Lifecycle
Weber, Sylvain; Falter, Jean-Marc - 2011
nonsignificant. Regarding education types, individuals with apprenticeship training constitute a special group. Their returns to … places them in between. The type of education thus matters more than education length in determining wage growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198570
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274183