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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

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Teacher Pay and Student Performance : Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance

Pugatch, Todd - 2014

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...

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Relative wages and pupil performance, evidence from TIMSS

Fullard, Joshua - 2021

While it is widely established that higher wages attract more productive individuals into teaching, it is unclear if …. Using teachers' predicted relative wages, calculated using a novel method of estimating teachers' outside option, we provide … evidence that teachers do respond to higher wages and this improves pupil outcomes. Consistent with the predictions of the …

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Illegal drugs, education, and labor market outcomes

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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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