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This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
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. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals' life trajectories in terms of health, education, and earnings, the …
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-generation immigrants and their French native counterparts. Second-generation immigrants have on average a lower probability of employment …-European origins do not differ significantly from their French native counterparts. The employment gap between French natives and … second generation immigrants is mainly explained by differences in their education; education is also an important …
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and find that worse employment conditions were the driving force. The lower opportunity costs of schooling because of the … pandemic recession encouraged more young people to complete high school. The pandemic created extensive problems in education …
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nature of entrepreneurial talent and the specific role of education in entrepreneurial selection and performance. Empirical … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human …
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. We use spouse's education and smoking as instruments. We find that spouse's education is a valid instrument and that …
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. The results indicate that, on average, the percentage wage gain due to higher education versus any other lower educational …
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We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...
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of training. We find that there are major differences in training participation across groups, with elder, low educated …. We show that discriminating between gender, education level, experience, the public and the private sector, and … variation across education and experience groups. The average effect of training is similar in the private sector and in the …
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This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the … from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the … education. …
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