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The birth order literature emphasizes the role of parental investments in explaining why firstborns have higher human capital outcomes than their laterborn siblings. We use birth order as a proxy for investments and interact it with genetic endowments. Exploiting only within-family variation in...
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There is a rich history of using data from twins and from adoptees to control for genetic influences and thereby examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature and for a variety of outcomes including IQ scores and...
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Using two polygenic scores (PGS) for educational attainment in a biomedical study of all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 we show that the genetic predisposition for educational attainment is associated with labour market participation and wages over the life- course for men...
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months both in paid employment, and in employment, education and training (EET) between age 17 and 42 than comparable …
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months both in paid employment, and in employment, education and training (EET) between age 17 and 42 than comparable …
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In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island … the completion of the training program) depends on relevant variables, such as age, gender, education and the content and … duration of the training. In a second stage, we use the individuals' self-assessment regarding the effectiveness of the …
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In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island … the completion of the training program) depends on relevant variables, such as age, gender, education and the content and … duration of the training. In a second stage, we use the individuals’ self-assessment regarding the effectiveness of the …
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This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …
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The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons whyfirms pay for the general skills of … willingnessof firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provisionempirically observed. It is …
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