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Lee Bounds With Multilayered Sample Selection
Kroft, Kory; Mourifié, Ismael; Vayalinkal, Atom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When training affects worker sorting to firms, sample selection is no longer binary but is "multilayered". This paper extends the canonical Heckman (1979) sample selection model - which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072893
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Regional development and creativity
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2012
of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional …, bohemians and non creative graduates) which are simultaneously included in a spatial model as determinants of regional growth … measured by labour productivity. After extending the analysis to control for other relevant factors which may affect regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340743
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328809
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329113
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333301
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333440
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Maternity leave and its consequences for subsequent careers in Germany
Franz, Nele - 2014
Subject of this paper is the investigation of wage developments of women interrupting their careers for giving birth tochildren in comparison to men's wages not facing a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352874
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The value of peripatetic economists: a sesqui-difference evaluation of Bob Gregory
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2005
I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267598
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Technical education, non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil
Camargo, Juliana; Lima, Lycia; Riva, Flavio; Souza, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34
effects of the program on school progression, labor market outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Our intention-to-treat estimates … outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Employment rose by 21 percentage points (or approximately 33%) and the gains in earnings are … of more than 50%. Also, women who received the offer scored 0.5σ higher on the synthetic index of non-cognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550223
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An Unfulfilled Promise? Higher Education Quality and Professional Underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428827