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1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
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, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa Familia” programme. Among public services, improved access to education … interventions such as expanding early-childhood education, by reducing grade-repetition and through more tailored support for those …'agissant des services publics, l'amélioration de l'accès à l'éducation a joué un rôle majeur, en permettant à davantage de …
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A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the same period, the share of black workers with less than a high school degree … increases in education and work experience will increase workers' productivity and translate into higher compensation. But, the …
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, which control for increases in age and education of the population, suggest that relative to 1979 the economy has lost about …
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The decline in the economy’s ability to create good jobs is related to deterioration in the bargaining power of workers, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the...
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institutional determinants, de-unionisation has had an adverse effect on income inequality, whereas higher minimum wages have …Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for …
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This paper assesses Estonia’s flexibility from two angles. The paper focuses on one aspect of that performance—the ability to sustain competitiveness. Then, a more forward-looking angle is the flexibility of Estonia’s labor and product markets. Estonia has made great...
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effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient …Using individual-level panel data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2007-2010) we explore … to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience …
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