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worker-workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own earnings of co-workers' education. Our results, using the 1998 UK … Workplace Employee Relations Survey, show significant effects. Own earnings premia fall slightly, but there is an independent …, significantly positive effect from average workplace education. We also test for interactions between own and co-worker education …
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dispersions into worker, workplace and sorting components. At the national level, we find that sorting increased its importance … over time. While worker-level factors were the main contributors to salary variability in the 2004-2008 period, workplace … factors became as important as worker-level factors in the 2014-2018 time segment. The influence of workplace factors on wage …
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workerworkplace dataset to estimate the effect on own earnings of co-workers' education. Our results, using the 1998 UK Workplace …, significantly positive effect from average workplace education. We also test for interactions between own and co-worker education …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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Contrary to employees, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' education positively effects income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from their education as a signal during the recruitment process of employees. This process is then assumed to follow a matching of...
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Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
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I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
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I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
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