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Explaining the gender wage gap: Estimates from a dynamic model of job changes and hours changes
Liu, Kai - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 411-447
I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to … model allows the differences in constraints to reflect possible gender dif- ferences in job arrival rates, job destruction … constraints, mainly in the form of the mean offered wages and rates of job arrival and destruction, explain most of the gender …
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Post-secondary education in Canada: can ability bias explain the earnings gap between college and university graduates?
Caponi, Vincenzo; Plesca, Miana - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 42 (2009) 3, pp. 1100-1131
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our data set allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...
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Skill premia and intergenerational education mobility: The French case
Ben-Halima, B.; Chusseau, N.; Hellier, J. - In: Economics of Education Review 39 (2014) C, pp. 50-64
In the case of France, we analyse the changes in the wage value of each education level and the impact of parents’ education and income upon the education attainment of children, sons and daughters. We find a critical decline in the skill premium of the Baccalauréat (‘bac’) in relation to...
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The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 263-275
This paper examines whether the framework developed in the educational mismatch field of research can be generalized to language skills. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and both “Worker Self-Assessment” and “Realized Matches” procedures to quantify...
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Return on investment of apprenticeship systems for enterprises: Evidence from cost-benefit analyses
Muehlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
A firm's decision to engage in apprenticeship training is to a large extent determined by the cost-benefit ratio of such an investment compared to other alternatives of securing skilled workers. Empirical evidence shows that in a well-functioning apprenticeship training system, a large share of...
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Segmented Life-cycle Labor Markets
Martins, Ana Paula - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 55 (2012) 1, pp. 39-74
The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially …
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Individual heterogeneity in the returns to schooling: instrumental variables quantile regression using twins data
Arias, Omar; Sosa-Escudero, Walter; Hallock, Kevin F. - In: Empirical Economics 26 (2001) 1, pp. 7-40
Considerable effort has been exercised in estimating mean returns to education while carefully considering biases arising from unmeasured ability and measurement error. Recent work has investigated whether there are variations from the "mean" return to education across the population with mixed...
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Return on investment of apprenticeship systems for enterprises : evidence from cost-benefit analyses
Mühlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
A firm's decision to engage in apprenticeship training is to a large extent determined by the cost-benefit ratio of such an investment compared to other alternatives of securing skilled workers. Empirical evidence shows that in a well-functioning apprenticeship training system, a large share of...
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Chapter 9. The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight-hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
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Same degree but different outcomes : an analysis of labour market outcomes for native and international PhD students in Australia
Tani, Massimiliano - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18
This paper used data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015 to study the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying on in Australia as skilled migrants. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a...
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