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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment

Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2015

reduction in earnings is likely due to the reduction in education. …

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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC

Jovicic, Sonja - 2015

This paper investigates how much of the difference in wage distributions is related to differences in skill distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some countries that have more compressed (dispersed) wage...

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What you do in high school matters : high school GPA, educational attainment, and labor market earnings as a young adult

French, Michael T.; Homer, Jenny F.; Popovici, Ioana; … - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 370-386

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: European economic review : EER 73 (2014), pp. 103-130

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Overeducation and earnings in the Australian graduate labour market : an application of the Vahey model

Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Education economics 23 (2015) 1/2, pp. 63-83

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The effects of school entry laws on educational attainment and starting wages in an early tracking system

Zweimüller, Martina - 2013

earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …

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Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects : a randomized field experiment

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; … - 2015

We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post-secondary programs. A third of the students report...

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Occupational attainment and earnings among immigrant groups : evidence from New Zealand

Maani, Sholeh A.; Dai, Mengyu; Inkson, Kerr - 2015

career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …, and much of its effect on earnings is through occupational attainment; different immigrant groups have differentiable …

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Is economics a good major for future lawyers? : evidence from earnings data

Winters, John V. - 2015

The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …

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Socioemotional skills, education, and health-related outcomes of high-ability individuals

Savelyev, Peter; Tan, Kegon - 2015

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