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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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Earnings returns to education, experience and health : evidence from EU-SILC

Flores, Manuel; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - 2013 - (Very preliminary version)

wages, the relationship between wages and health is less clear-cut. What makes it most difficult to disentangle these … effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient … status changes the estimation results dramatically. Still, we find that for both men and women in Europe education, actual …

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The great proletarian cultural revolution, disruptions to education, and the returns to schooling in urban China

Giles, John; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2015

-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …

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Economic crises and returns to university education in middle-income countries : stylized facts and COVID-19 projections

Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Shafiq, M. Najeeb - 2020

This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education) has increased during economic crises....

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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...

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The effect of education on earnings in a post-conflict economy : evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rizvanovic, Aida; Efendic, Adnan - In: Financial internet quarterly 17 (2021) 2, pp. 1-15

This paper investigates the effect of formal education on individual earnings in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). We use empirical regression analysis and an extended Mincer's model, which are applied to the Labour Force Survey data from 2018. Our empirical results suggest that a higher level of...

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