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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital with strong empirical links to productivity

Botev, Jarmila; Égert, Balázs; Smidova, Zuzana; … - 2019

This paper calculates new measures of human capital. Contrary to the existing literature, they are based on realistic rates of return to education, which are allowed to vary substantially across countries and to some extent over time. The new measures perform well in regression analysis...

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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014

SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners’...

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Risk-Return Trade-Offs to Complete Educational Paths : Vocational, Academic and Mixed

Tuor Sartore, Simone N. - 2009

both systems. To study the labor market outcome we compare earnings and calculate net return rates as well as risk measures …

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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of...

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Rates of Return to Education : The View of Students in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, Andre - 2021

Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...

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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes

Simon, Lisa - 2019

side of the labour market. The deregulation was an amendment to the Trade and Crafts code of Germany regarding the … deregulated craft occupations, the effect on earnings and employment for incumbent workers was slightly negative. The reform also … Personalleitern in Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich Fähigkeitssignale in allen drei untersuchten Kategorien - kognitive …

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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia

Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020

This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...

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Rates of return to education : the view of students in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001

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Rates of return to education : the view of students in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001

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Child mental health and educational attainment : multiple observers and the measurement error problem

Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2011 - This version: July 15, 2011

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … compared to expert diagnosis. -- Child mental health ; Education ; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire ; Measurement error …

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