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The Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers, and Wages : Measuring the Impact of Higher Education
Behrman, Jere; Kletzer, Lori G.; McPherson, Michael S.; … - 1999
There has been a rising interest in understanding better the impact of college choices on wages, an interest motivated by concerns about increasing wage inequalities, about increasing costs of elite colleges, and about the perceived increasing roles of highly educated individuals in maintaining...
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Ugly Criminals
Mocan, Naci H.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
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The Effects of Two-Year College on the Labor Market and Schooling Experiences of Young Men
Surette, Brian J. - 1998
of four-year credits. Finally, simulations show that reducing tuition could raise income modestly by increasing college …
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The Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers, and Wages : Measuring the Impact of Higher Education
Zemsky, Robert; Cappelli, Peter - 2011
Understanding the economic payoff to human investments is very important from the standpoint both of individuals and of society. Correctly estimating these impacts necessitates having a well-developed idea of the microeconomic determinants of human behavior. Without this, empirical analyses of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046242
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The Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers, and Wages : Measuring the Impact of Higher Education
Behrman, Jere; Kletzer, Lori G.; McPherson, Michael S.; … - 1999
Understanding the economic payoff to human investments is very important from the standpoint both of individuals and of society. Correctly estimating these impacts necessitates having a well-developed idea of the microeconomic determinants of human behavior. Without this, empirical analyses of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207081
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The Potential Output Gains from Using Optimal Teacher Incentives: An Illustrative Calibration of a Hidden Action Model
Mehta, Nirav - 2018
This paper examines the potential output gains from the implementation of optimal teacher incentive pay schemes, by calibrating the H¨olmstrom and Milgrom (1987) hidden action model using data from Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2011), a teacher incentive pay experiment implemented in Andhra...
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Educación y Mercado de Trabajo
Tetaz, Martín - 2005
La presente obra es un estudio integral de economía de la educación, que abarca 4 grandes temas; a saber: La determinación de la inteligencia y su relación con la educación; La función de producción de educación y los determinantes del rendimiento educativo; La decisión de asignación...
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Grenzen der Bildungsexpansion? Ausbildungsinadäquate Beschäftigung von Ausbildungs- und Hochschulabsolventen in Deutschland
Rukwid, Ralf - 2012
Der Begriff der Ausbildungsadäquanz zielt auf den Grad der Übereinstimmung zwischen den im Bildungssystem erworbenen Qualifikationen und dem Anforderungsprofil der am Arbeitsmarkt ausgeübten Tätigkeit. Im Falle einer ausbildungsinadäquaten Beschäftigung oder auch Fehlqualifikation bleibt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309797
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Grenzen der Bildungsexpansion? : Ausbildungsinadäquate Beschäftigung von Ausbildungs- und Hochschulabsolventen in Deutschland
Rukwid, Ralf - 2012
Der Begriff der Ausbildungsadäquanz zielt auf den Grad der Übereinstimmung zwischen den im Bildungssystem erworbenen Qualifikationen und dem Anforderungsprofil der am Arbeitsmarkt ausgeübten Tätigkeit. Im Falle einer ausbildungsinadäquaten Beschäftigung oder auch Fehlqualifikation bleibt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569476
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Variations in the wage returns to a first degree : evidence from the British cohort study 1970
Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor);  … - 2005
rationale for the latter element comes from evidence of a high private return to university undergraduate degrees. However, much … of this evidence pre-dates the rapid expansion in the graduate population. In the current paper, we use evidence from a … awarded. -- degree ; return ; subject ; class ; UK ; university …
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