Similar Search Results

The Returns to Education and Basic Skills Training for Individuals with Poor Health or Disability

Hollenbeck, Kevin; Kimmel, Jean - 2010

This paper examines linkages between disability and health status and the returns to education and basic skills … that the returns to education for individuals with a disability or poor health are positive, although of moderate size and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122748

Skill Policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2021

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318811

Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany : A Sectoral Analysis

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2008

employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727101

Sports, exercise, and labor market outcomes : increasing participation in sports and exercise can boost productivity and earnings

Lechner, Michael - 2015

individual participation in sports and exercise can be a major force for achieving this goal. The productivity gains and related … increase in earnings come on top of the already well-documented public health effects that have so far provided the rationale …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430232

Private Wage Returns to Schooling in Nigeria : 1996-1999

Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - 2003

In the last two decades, primary and secondary school enrollment rates have declined in Nigeria while enrollment rates in post-secondary school have increased. This paper estimates from the General Household Survey for Nigeria the private returns to schooling associated with levels of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103961

Private wage returns to schooling in Nigeria : 1996 - 1999

Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001724098

Private wage returns to schooling in Nigeria : 1996-1999

Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608203

College quality and earnings in the Japanese labor market

Ono, Hiroshi - 2000 - Rev. March 11, 2003

The motivations underlying the pursuit of college prestige in Japan presumes a labor market that rewards workers according to the quality of the college that they attended. Yet, studies that examine the relationship between college quality and earnings in Japan remain few and riddled with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009502712

Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283119

Consumption and wage humps in a life-cycle model with education

Kraft, Holger; Munk, Claus; Seifried, Frank Thomas; … - 2014

affecting future wages. We show optimal consumption is hump shaped and determine the peak age. The hump results from consumption … education, which lowers future wages, and the present value of foregone wages decreases with age. Consumption is hump shaped …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365130