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How fast do wages adjust to human-capital productivity? Dynamic panel-data evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland

Andini, Corrado - 2009

The standard human-capital model is based on the assumption that the observed wage of an individual is equal to the monetary value of the individual net human-capital productivity, the so-called net potential wage. We argue that this assumption is rejected by the ECHP data for Belgium, Denmark...

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Earnings persistence and schooling returns

Andini, Corrado - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 482-484

The standard approach to the estimation of schooling returns disregards earnings persistence. Using longitudinal data for Belgian male workers (ECHP, 1994–2001), we show that earnings persistence matters.

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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...

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Voluntary work and wages

Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - 2014

volunteering on wages gives support to the hypotheses that volunteering enables the access to fruitful informal networks, avoids …

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How fast do wages adjust to human-capital productivity? : dynamic panel-data evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland

Andini, Corrado - 2009

theoretical assumptions. -- Mincer equation ; wages ; human capital …

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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups? : the case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …

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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...

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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550294

The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany

Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...

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Wage returns to human capital resulting from an extra year of primary school : evidence from Egypt

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; … - 2023

In this paper, we examine the wage returns to an extra year of primary school using a policy reform in Egypt, which reduced compulsory primary schooling from 6 to 5 years. Since this policy changed the duration of primary school while providing the same diploma, we can estimate the human capital...

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