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Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality
Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; Macmillan, Lindsey - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on … initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421185
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Selective schooling systems increase inequality
Burgess, Simon M.; Dickson, Matt; Macmillan, Lindsey - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on … initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409777
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Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality
Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; Macmillan, Lindsey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on … initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959701
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Selective schooling systems increase inequality
Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on … initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261673
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Selective schooling systems increase inequality
Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on … initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198468
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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017
, productivity and wages. Structural inequality shocks also have a negative impact on hours worked, but additionally reduce …This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663350
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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017
, productivity and wages. Structural inequality shocks also have a negative impact on hours worked, but additionally reduce …This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598502
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Degrees of poverty: The relationship between family income background and the returns to education
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad J. - 2018
Drawing on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we document a startling empirical pattern: the career earnings premium from a four-year college degree (relative to a high school diploma) for persons from low-income backgrounds is considerably less than it is for those from higher-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059532
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Bolivia: Los avances sociales y laborales en el periodo de boom económico y los desafíos con el fin de la bonanza
Wanderley, Fernanda - 2018
inequality following the trend of Latin America. The analysis of the evolution of the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Index (NBI) also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100636
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Explaining the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S.
Castro, Rui; Coen-Pirani, Daniele - 2015
We study the evolution of educational attainment of the 1932-1972 cohorts using a human capital investment model with heterogeneous learning ability. Inter-cohort variation in schooling is driven by changes in skill prices, tuition, and education quality over time, and average learning ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878853