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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014

SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners’...

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Does composition matter? : wage inequality and the demographic and educational structure of the labor force in Gemany

Klemm, Marcus; Weigert, Benjamin - 2014 - This version: November 2014

This paper addresses the importance of compositional changes in the labor force for the development of the wage distribution. Demographic change and higher educational attainment imply a shift toward employees with more experience and/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher...

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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Heterogeneous human capital : perspectives on income inequality and leadership in technology

Brezis, Elise S.; Rubin, Amir - 2024

This paper highlights a new driver of inequality, that may become increasingly prominent over the years: the inequality between skilled workers graduating from elite universities and those from standard institutions. This paper emphasizes that heterogeneity in higher education is a key factor in...

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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes

Simon, Lisa - 2019

the impact of regional structural change caused by exposure to import competition from China and Eastern Europe on … über das Bildungsniveau von Flüchtlingen, die Wahrnehmung der Teilnehmer hierzu experimentell verändert. Die Ergebnisse … zeigen, dass ein höheres wahrgenommenes Bildungsniveau von Flüchtlingen, Sorgen der Teilnehmer um Wettbewerb auf dem …

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A panel study of immigrants' overeducation and earnings in Australia

Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2017

The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...

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Language and labor market success

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...

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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway

Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012

Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...

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How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? : what does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?

Alonso Soto, Daniel; Ñopo, Hugo - 2017

Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...

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