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Lifetime Earnings, Discount Rate, Ability and the Demand for Post-Compulsory Education in Men in England and Wales
Johnson, Daniel - 2004
Human capital theory suggests educational investments are made based on expected returns over the lifetime. Most other work in this field, particularly using British data, is based on demand models estimated in reduced form, with no earnings measures, or crudely constructed earnings measures,...
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Convergences in men's and women's life patterns : lifetime work, lifetime earnings, and human capital investment
Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2014
The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on … selection over time for both women and men and show the rising effect of selection for women in recent years. Returns to … education diverge for women and men over this period in the selection-adjusted results but converge in the OLS results, while …
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The career decisions of young men
Keane, Michael P. - In: Journal of political economy 105 (1997) 3, pp. 473-522
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The non-cognitive returns to class size
Dee, Thomas S.; West, Martin - 2008
"Although recent evidence suggests that non-cognitive skills such as engagement matter for academic and economic success, there is little evidence on how key educational inputs affect the development of these skills. We present a re-analysis of follow-up data from the Project STAR class-size...
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A review of human capital theory : microeconomics
Fleischhauer, Kai-Joseph - 2007
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School reform, educational achievement and lifetime income : essays in empirical labor economics
Böhlmark, Anders - 2007
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
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Evidence and persistence of education inequality in an early-tracking system : the German case
Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - 2014
This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable social, ethnic, gender- and age-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on...
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Education and earnings growth : evidence from 11 European countries
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - In: Economics of education review 23 (2004) 1, pp. 75-83
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Education and earnings growth : evidence from 11 European countries
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000
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