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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation

Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...

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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...

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Local labor markets

Moretti, Enrico - 2010

I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial...

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly - driven not only by...

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Migration, self-selection, and income distributions: Evidence from rural and urban China

Xing, Chunbing - 2010

not homogeneous, they self-select to migrate or not. Second, there are significant differences between migrants who … successfully transformed their hukou status (permanent migrants) and those did not (temporary migrants). Using three coordinated … CHIP data sets in 2002, we find that permanent migrants are positively selected from rural population especially in terms …

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Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995 - 2007

Xing, Chunbing - 2010

We use three waves of urban household survey data from 1995 to 2007 to investigate the trends of residual inequality and its determinants. First, we describe the change of overall and residual wage inequality over time. One important new pattern is that the rise in both the overall and residual...

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Behind the lighthouse effect

Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Ribeiro, Marta - 2010

A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far explained as a byproduct of a signal conveyed by statutory minimum wages to wage setting in the...

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The Role of the Human Capital and Managerial Skills in Explaining the Productivity Gaps between East and West

Steffen, Wolfgang; Stephan, Johannes - 2007

This paper assess determinants of productivity gaps between firms in the European transition countries and regions and firms in West Germany. The analysis is conducted at the firm level by use of a unique database constructed by field work. The determinants tested in a simple econometric...

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Does Qualification Drive Innovation? A Microeconometric Analysis Using Linked-employer-employee Data

Brandenburg, Bianca; Günther, Jutta; Schneider, Lutz - 2007

Mikrodatensatz deutscher Betriebe (LIAB), welcher detailierte Informationen über die Innovationsaktivitäten und die Qualifikation der …

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Job assignment with multivariate skills

Brilon, Stefanie - 2010

This paper analyzes the job assignment problem faced by a firm when workers' skills are distributed along several dimensions and jobs require different skills to varying extent. I derive optimal assignment rules with and without slot constraints, and show that under certain circumstances workers...

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